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...bright pink suit and a mink beret, Jacqueline Kennedy set out for Buckingham Palace and lunch with Queen Elizabeth II. "I'm feeling full of beans and very excited," she said. "It's a great honor." Afterward, pressed for further comment, she said diplomatically: "I am deeply honored to have been invited by the Queen to lunch. I thought the Queen's clothes were just lovely." Late that day-after a visit to an antique shop in London's Fulham Road, where she purchased 20 pieces of 18th century French and English china-Jackie headed home...
...group, the U.S. guerrillas are the best combat troops in the Army. Their badge is their green beret, authorized by the President to set them apart as elite troops. All are volunteers. All are paratroopers. About 40% of the officers and 25% of the enlisted men have had commando-like Ranger training. Officers can speak at least one, and often two, foreign languages. Every enlisted man has one specialty and a grounding in two others, e.g., weapons, demolitions, medical care. The training is intensive: demolition experts can fashion explosives out of fertilizer; medics can amputate limbs and treat any kind...
...local populace to survive, the Special Forces are sternly schooled in the techniques of staying out of trouble in foreign countries. Carousing, and consorting with native women are taboo. Says one veteran of South Viet Nam: "We haven't room for the man who wears his beret at a rakish angle, swaggers into a bar and starts telling everyone he's an American superman. That's when the job goes to hell...
...that though John did not change, he never seemed to date. Then would come John's friends-poets, artists, actors, M.P.s, and a generous sampling of the House of Lords-chatting and advising. Finally, John himself, bearded and majestic, would sweep in, his headgear-whether a beret or black Homburg or battered trilby-cocked at some outlandish angle. He would stay only an hour or so. "Very exhausting, all that," he would say, and be off to his favorite pub-knowing full well that once again he was the talk of the London art world...
...falls in love with a full-grown nymph (not played by Lahr, but by a half-wrapped nougat named Patricia Englund). And his last ideal cracks like a bone when his friend and adviser, a dedicated artist named Goddard Quagmeyer, sells out to Hollywood, puts on a purple beret, salmon-colored suit, orange ascot, pink shirt, and develops nine simultaneous tics. He is further disillusioned when he meets the president of Charnel House, a publisher with a marked resemblance to Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf, who announces: "Harry Hubris and I have never...