"Nikki knows it doesn't help them unless they pay for it. It's easy to earn money on a couch." This interpretation of Freudian dogma appears in the July issue of Out along with eight pages of photos of Sigmund's great-granddaughter, Nicola Freud, 22, wearing nothing " but a pair of high boots. Nikki, the eldest child of British M.P. Clement ("Clay") Freud, has already been a jockey in the U.S. and a go-go girl in Spain. Now living in Chicago with Playboy Travel Editor Reg Potterton and their ten-month-old son Tom, Nikki has embarked on a freelance-writing career, plus an occasional publicity diversion such as the $5,000 modeling job for Out. "It is a kind of rebellion against the Freud name--and a kind of joke," says Nikki. Father Clay is not amused. "She is trading on the family name instead of her talent and beauty," he said. Dismissing Dad's reaction, Nikki declared, "I think Sigmund would have liked me because I obviously like myself."

Questions of authenticity continue to haunt The Exorcist. Now Greek Orthodox Bishop Mark Athanasios C. Karras of Miami is suing Warner Bros., Harper & Row, Bantam Books and Author William Peter Blatty for the unauthorized use of his name in the book and the movie. He wants $7 million of the work's multimillion-dollar profit. Mark Athanasios C. has exorcised demons for years, he says, and what particularly peeves him is that Blatty has made the fictional Father Karras "a weak and failing priest." Said a professionally wounded, flesh-and-blood Karras: "The book and the picture wrongfully depict my life and work."

With some 156 awards to hand out, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences limits its annual broadcast show to presentations in the most competitive categories. Logical perhaps, but disappointing for the invisible winners. Informed by the academy that he was to be given a special Emmy for outstanding program and individual achievement, a delighted Dick Cavett wrote an acceptance speech and, since he could not be at the Hollywood ceremonies, asked Carol Burnett to deliver it. Then he sat back to watch the proceedings on television, only to have it slowly dawn on him that his Emmy was never going to come up. Firing off a telegram to the academy, Cavett turned down his award, saying, "Since you couldn't find room for it in your 2 1/2-hour program, I can't find room for it in my 4 1/2-room apartment."

The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in Manhattan recently enrolled two new pupils: Woody Allen and his Sleeper co-star Diane Keaton. So far, they have attended a couple of 90-minute sessions where, according to Diane, "there's a lot of floor work and exercises, then for the last half hour we skip and leap." The Graham staff's powers are being fully tested by Woody, who in a preliminary workout had trouble lining up his knees for a simple "stand-up-straight" exercise. With becoming bashfulness, Woody refuses to boast about his latest achievement. His spokesman simply says: "All Woody will say is that he's taking tennis lessons."

Patriot Bob Hope celebrated his 71st birthday as near as he could get to the trenches. Playing host at a $100-a-plate dinner for the U.S.O. in his old home town of Cleveland, Hope attracted the top brass: former Secretary of the Army Elvis Stahr and former Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland, who described Bob as "the man who proudly waved the flag for us." Hope briefly touched on Watergate: "I passed the Lincoln Memorial the other day, and he was wearing dark glasses." But still, old friend Richard Nixon had sent his congratulations. Hope stoutly defended the President's deleted expletives. Growled Bob: "I've used fouler language than that every time I tip my caddie."

Peripatetic Sam Yorty, 64, who spent much of his twelve-year tenure as Los Angeles mayor out of town, has finally found a job that keeps him home. Every weekday from 7 to 10 a.m., Sam fields calls from his former constituents as host of a talk show on radio station KGBS. Sam is most sympathetic to disgruntled conservatives. "Most of the people who cause trouble are high on pot," he said last week. Acknowledging that his hours are tough, Yorty, who is paid $ 1,000 a week, hopes to have a studio at home by the end of the year so he can broadcast in his bathrobe. Nothing would induce him to go back into politics: "I'm closer to the people now than I was when I was mayor."

"It's only when you show an animal you're afraid that you lose control," said Actor Peter Lawford with bravado. He was preparing somewhat nervously for his first scene with the 275-lb. lioness Elsa. On location in Kenya for a fall TV series based on the Joy Adamson book and movie Born Free, Lawford and Elsa played amiably together before the cameras. Afterward Lawford rated the gentle lioness above the other animal stars he has worked with. Among the worst, he said, was Lassie. "She was checked into a two-bedroom suite and accompanied by a whole retinue--sort of like a small Frank Sinatra unit."

Paris-born Maurice Girodias, 55, has been working as a publisher in Manhattan for seven years on a business visa. In and out of the U.S., he recently learned from the U.S. Immigration Service that he will be deported on June 15. Apparently, he told officials he would be traveling outside the U.S. again in January. He is now considered an illegal alien because he failed to do so. But Girodias--who made his reputation in the '50s in France by publishing English-language books such as Lolita and The Naked Lunch, which were banned in the U.S. and Britain--believes that the real reason for his deportation was a "poison-pen letter" received by the State Department. "A patriot" accused him of publishing a "vile, pornographic book" entitled President Kissinger. Due out in July, it is a fanciful account of Kissinger's progress from Harvard professor to first President of the World, spanning such cataclysms as a Middle East war, a second U.S. Civil War, and a vast African upheaval--along with restrained glimpses of Henry's romantic entanglements. Girodias, who only needs to pay $10 to renew his visa, instead petitioned Kissinger on his own behalf, describing the book in a letter as "a vibrant homage to your political institutions."

Among the 15 college students and teen-agers accepted as summer interns in Senator Ted Kennedy's office is a President's daughter: Caroline Kennedy, 16. For three weeks, starting in late July, Caroline will be a "go-fer," sorting mail and operating the autopen that prints Uncle Ted's signature on routine letters. According to Kennedy's press secretary, Dick Drayne, "Interns have a lot of fun. They can go to hearings, onto the floor when the Senator is there, and get to a lot of parties." He added, "and Caroline wants to be treated like all the others." The bearer of another famous name will be interning this summer on Capitol Hill. John J. Sirica Jr., 21, a junior at Duke University--where President Nixon went to law school--is assigned to the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau as a copy boy and writer trainee. However, John Jr. will not be assigned to cover the U.S. district court where his father presides over several Watergate cases.

Jack's language was cleaner than Dick's. This insight into the comparative virtues of the Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Nixon was made last week in the Washington Post by JFK's press secretary Pierre Salinger. If transcripts of Kennedy's Oval Office conversations existed, asserts Pierre, they would have revealed Jack's easy authority over his staff. There would have been no need to have the letter P placed before his utterances, as it is in the Nixon transcripts, because Kennedy aides always called the boss "Sir" or "Mr. President." Pierre burnishes the memory of Kennedy's generally happy relationship with the press, but overlooks the late President's courting of reporters, his participation in the suppression of news about the Bay of Pigs, and his canceling a subscription to the critical New York Herald Tribune. Still, Salinger concludes, "The President understood one great truth about the relationship between the presidency and the press --and that is that they fundamentally have to be adversaries."

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