While Jimmy Carter tried to outrun the attack-rabbit story, Daughter Amy bade goodbye to her maverick mongrel Grits. Born on Election Day 1976, Grits was a gift to the First Daughter from Verona Meeder, her fifth-grade teacher. The dog was returned, presidential aides insisted, because its mother had died, leaving Mrs. Meeder canineless. As usual, however, there were leaks in high places. One was that Amy's pet was sent back because, after 2 1/2 years, it still was not White House broken. . It may be the only gym that contributes profits to California's Campaign for Economic Democracy, solar energy, tenants' rights and better housing. It could only be located in Beverly Hills, and the proprietress could only be Jane Fonda, who founded her health salon after discovering how exercise helped her slim down for her bikini-clad role in California Suite. "I started classes, five times a week. It was the most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. . He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy in his familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started in 1956, but he still travels 250,000 miles yearly promoting the product for present owner Heublein, Inc. Lest anyone think he's less than finger-lickin' good at his job, the colonel led his admiring crowd in a rousing version of My Old Kentucky Home. . In 25 years, Playboy has uncovered 305 Playmates, reason enough for Publisher Hugh Hefner to invite them to a grand anniversary bash. Among the 136 who came was blond Janet Pilgrim, whose three centerfolds in 1955-56 remain the individual record. Considering what her successors have been revealing, Pilgrim was positively coy. One pose, reproduced at the party, shows her wearing only a white fur stole but exposing little more than cleavage. Pilgrim's progress has been pretty good: now 45 and the mother of two teenage girls, Hefner's pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture. . At $500,000 the mansion was a doubtful bargain, even with 26 rooms, 1.7 acres and a prime location in Long Island's haute summer town of East Hampton. And even with its notorious cachet as Grey Gardens, squalid home of the Ediths Beale, mere et fille, much publicized relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. "My brother told me to drop the price to $225,000 and it would sell," confessed Edie Beale, fille, 60. It did, to buyers just as famous: Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn of the Washington Post. "It's not in very good shape," said Bradlee. "But it will be fun to get it back into the lovely shape that it was in."

On the Record

Richard W. Lyman, Stanford University president: "As our distrust of institutions and their leaders becomes overwhelming, we leave the way open either to bureaucratic force majeure or to demagoguery."

Richard M. Nixon, in a new introduction to his 1962 Six Crises that adds Watergate as a dismal seventh: "History will justifiably record that my handling of the Watergate crisis was an unmitigated disaster."

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