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...gallivant that has already taken them to Australia and, on a brief stopover, to Hawaii, where the Prince went bodysurfing and the Princess received a brilliantly colorful lei ("Oh, how sweet they smell," she said). After Washington, they were set to jet down to Palm Beach, Fla., for a brisk game of polo and a glittering charity ball for the United World College of the American West...
That night, a gala dinner for the royal couple was planned for the National Gallery, where guests included various Washington luminaries, such as Treasury Secretary James Baker, and a coterie of well-heeled benefactors of the gallery. Charles and Diana were to depart the next morning for Palm Beach to go directly to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. Charles, who has brought along his own equipment for his favorite sport, will engage in a friendly match. Plans for the pregame festivities, rife with quirky Americana, included appearances by Disney World's Minnie and Mickey Mouse, a kind...
...lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert, H.V., red in the face, excused himself and stalked out. Ironically, when the 1938 Munich crisis heated up, CBS called H.V. to come back and broadcast the crisis because only he understood German. Ruth Brine Kaltenborn Palm Beach, Fla. Draped by Miyake...
John Kennedy probably best described the realizations that come from such a moment. He was back home in Palm Beach, Fla., resting after the 1961 summit in Vienna, a daiquiri in hand, Frank Sinatra records filling the night air. He remembered Nikita Khrushchev as seeming, well, so different when the two first sat down alone. "I looked him over pretty good," Kennedy chortled. He became fascinated with his adversary's hands. They were always thumping, fiddling. They were blunt, ungraceful hands, Kennedy recalled, but strong, so quick. "You're an old country, we're a young country," blurted Khrushchev. "Look...
What was left behind in Armero, in Henao's words, was "one big beach of mud." A viscous gray layer, between 7 ft. and 15 ft. thick, covered most of the town. Thousands of bodies were buried in the sludge, their location sometimes marked by pools of blood on the surface. Other corpses lay half visible in miniature bogs that were as treacherous as quicksand. Some exhausted survivors lay on the surface of the mud in shallows, or staggered along in shock on drier ground. Many of the living were naked or only partly clothed; their garments had been torn...