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...Ivory Coast's Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny and Monaco's Princess Grace all buy clothes from Dior, though Grace also fancies Balenciaga (who designed Belgian Queen Fabiola's mink-trimmed bridal gown), and in her Hollywood days was dressed by Oleg Cassini (now Jackie's couturier). Save for Fabiola, who had a miscarriage last summer but is reported pregnant again, all the reigning beauties are devoted mothers whose main occupational complaint is that their children have to spend too much time in the hands of nannies...
...came Kennedy, accompanied by Jackie in a seafoam green evening gown by Oleg Cassini. In the reception line, Chemist Linus Pauling, who had spent the day in a ban-the-bomb picket line outside, got special attention. "Glad to see you expressing your opinions so strongly," said Kennedy heartily. And Jackie twitted him with "Why do you do that? Every time Caroline sees people outside with signs, she says, 'What has Daddy done now?'" In a dinner toast, the President observed: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been...
...spokesman had sternly announced that "Mrs. Kennedy does not regard this trip as a fashion show." But the 70-odd correspondents with her paid no heed. Whether she wore a Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears...
...shopping trail wasn't too hard to follow since a leak from the White House last week mentioned the Park Avenue shop, Chez Ninon, and California Designer Gus Tassell as supplying the clothes, along with the official Cassini...
...mostly newsmen and newshens -down the Ganges awaited sailing orders. And the Taj Mahal, which she will view both by daylight and moonlight-well, the Taj Mahal, postponement or no, always lives up to its advance billing. For her part, the First Lady was packing trunkloads of clothes by Cassini, Chez Ninon and Tassell. She had got shots for cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid and tetanus-without getting sick. She had conscientiously boned up on the customs of India and Pakistan. Only one question remained: Would her health...