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...guess," Jacqueline Kennedy told an aide in 1963, "if Pierre ends up putting me and the children on the cover of Look in a bubble bath, I'll have to put up with it." JFK's press secretary, Pierre Salinger, might well have concocted such a scheme-and Mrs. Kennedy was determined to "do anything to help" the President's campaign for a second term. Nonetheless, she could never quite accept the fact that for a glamorous couple with charming children, life in the White House was indeed a perennial and public bubble bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Steam from the Bubble Bath | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...Said another officer: "The bodies were piled up like in a Nazi prison camp." It was indeed a scene of Sophoclean horror. A pool of blood glistened on the floor of one bedroom. In another, a torn, blood-soaked bed comforter lay under a two-piece yellow-and-white bathing suit that had been hung up to dry. The pages of a mimeographed lecture ("The Mental Mechanisms for Ego Defense") were strewn about the floor near a second puddle of blood. Bloodstains smeared the front of a record album on a bed. A calendar (Sept. 8: "Hallelujah. Training completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: One by One | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...fuzzy little Steiff poodle to dangle from the rear-view mirror, or more popularly a porcelain bud vase whose fresh flowers can be changed each day. The height of affection comes on the weekend when the car owner can give his lovely Gisela or Mitzi or Erika a bubble bath. From Kiel to Koblenz each Saturday afternoon, the streets are filled with men carrying sudsy plastic pails and chamois. Floor mats and cushions-many of them hand-embroidered by the car owner's routine wife-are assiduously cleaned, often by tiny, transistorized vacuum cleaners. A recent survey showed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Autoeroticism | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Happy in the Bath. For all the problems, chances are good that Liz will survive. She has pulled through several others. When the First Lady made her whistle-stop tour of the South in the 1964 presidential campaign, Liz kept overworked, underfed reporters happy with a steady flow of banter and favors. Taking note of their sweaty condition, she announced: "On the theory that the press that bathes together stays together, we have reserved three rooms, baths, and showers and 150 towels at the Duval Hotel in Tallahassee tonight." To reporters who missed the train, she offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press Secretaries: A Riot in the White House | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

This does not mean that Red China is embarking on a Stalinist blood bath. Klein pointed out that Chinese political purges in the past never involved death, and almost never jail. The official simply leaves his post, and may even return to government at some later date under more favorable conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Klein Calls Recent Chinese Purges Indication of Naked Power struggle | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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