"Too much heaven," say the Bee Gees in their No. 1 single, and the folks at UNICEF agree. To kick off the U.N.'s International Year of the Child, the Bee Gees have donated their percentage of the profits from their newest hit song to Music for UNICEF, a special project of the organization. "My conscience tells me I'm making too much money not to give some to underprivileged children. They're the defenseless ones," says Barry Gibb, the group's chief songwriter. The Bee Gees joined with TV Personality David Frost and Film Producer Robert Stigwood to persuade ten other rock luminaries to hand over their earnings from a song, old or new. Rod Stewart selected Maggie May, John Denver Rhymes and Reasons. This week the musicians are gathering at the U.N. General Assembly to sing their songs in a concert televised to more than 70 nations. More artists are expected to kick in songs in years to come, giving UNICEF a long-term windfall estimated at $100 million.

It was S.R.O. in the chambers of the Virginia state senate. The attraction? John Warner was being sworn in as a U.S. Senator while his wife Actress Elizabeth Taylor looked on. Swathed in a boa and regal in a large fur hat, she held the Bible for her husband and reverentially cast downward her famous violet eyes. After the ceremony, the press rushed over, not to find out Warner's congressional plans, but to hear what role Liz would play as a Senate wife. One thing seems certain: she will attend the regular Tuesday Red Cross meetings of the Senate Wives Club. "I'm dying to," she says. "I am a Senator's wife and I want to be. I love it."

No time for breakfast at Tiffany's, or lunch either for that matter. Audrey Hepburn has given up her leisurely life as a Roman housewife to make her second film in a decade, her first since Robin and Marian in 1976. In the movie version of Sidney Sheldon's bestseller Bloodline, Hepburn plays the heiress to a large pharmaceutical empire, who takes over the company when her father (James Mason) is killed in a mysterious mountain accident. Sheldon's heroine was in her 20s, but the film's Fair Lady is more mature. "I like my wrinkles," says Hepburn. At 49, she wears them very well indeed.

Australian Soprano Joan Sutherland agrees with Rodgers and Hammerstein that there is nothing like a dame. "I love England's royalist traditions," said she after being named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth. British Singer Gracie Fields was also dubbed a Dame in Her Majesty's New Year's Honors List, and Australian Auto Racing Great Jack Brabham was knighted. A lesser title (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) went to Yorkshire Veterinarian James Herriot, author of the bestseller All Creatures Great and Small, and British-born Pop Singer Olivia Newton-John. As for Sutherland, the honor will make little change in her activities. "How could it?" asks Dame Joan, 52. "I am solidly booked for the next 3 1/2 years."

Those Carter boys never learn. Jimmy's "adultery in my heart" interview in Playboy was the most notorious caper in his campaign, and now Billy has mouthed off to Penthouse about his brother's staff. Presidential Adviser Charles Kirbo, said Billy, was the "dumbest bastard I ever met in my life," while Press Secretary Jody Powell "would be better off running a farm in Vienna, Ga." To which Powell replied: "It would certainly put me in touch with a better class of people." In Billy's opinion, Chief White House Aide Hamilton Jordan is "a kid. I don't know what the hell Hamilton does." Holds his temper, for one thing. His rejoinder: "Good ole Billy."

On the Record

Kevin White, mayor of Boston, giving an opinion of his city: "It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either."

Alfred Kahn, outspoken head of Carter's anti-inflation program, reflecting on his days as a dean at Cornell University: "You may have heard that a dean is to a faculty as a hydrant is to a dog."

John Cassavetes, film director (Faces) and actor (Brass Target), on feminism: "Men would do almost anything to suit the temporary insanity that women are going through right now."

Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts: "I worry about almost all there is in life to worry about, and because I worry, Charlie Brown has to worry."

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