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...lovely luncheon. Jacqueline Kennedy came, smartly dressed in a checked tweed coat, and the 200 construction workers, clad in khakis and cement dust, grinned delightedly over their lunchtime beers and sandwiches as she accompanied Architect Marcel Breuer on an inspection tour of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. Meantime, at some less gritty feeds, old New Frontier Friend Nicole Alphand was swirling around town winding up a hectic month of goodbyes. Everyone was a little mournful now that French Ambassador Hervé Alphand was taking his glittering wife back to Paris, where he will become Secretary General...
...enemy now faces an irrevocable U.S. commitment, and as a result, Saigon of late has had a spring in the step and a sparkle in the eye missing for years. Its visible embodiment is jaunty, popular Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, 35, who has moved with verve from scarf-clad air force commander to chairman of the board in the military collegium now ruling the nation. Ky is the closest thing to a national hero that South Viet Nam has and wherever he goes in Saigon, admiring teen-agers gather round...
...throw Her Majesty in," urged Prince Bernhard. It was midnight, and everyone was feeling pretty democratic, but the palace aide, for some curious reason, still demurred. So finally, the Prince himself sneaked over, seized The Netherlands' Queen Juliana, 56, clad in a cocktail dress and suavely heaved her into the swimming pool at the Hotel Caravanserai on St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. Thus the Dutch royal couple, on a ten-day tour of the islands, regally put everyone at ease. Prince Bernhard had already been dunked in his tux, most of the other guests had followed...
...that when she showed up after a call from a bellhop, a marshal told her to identify herself as a "lady marshal" if anyone asked why she was on the tenth floor with the jury. Both she and Patsy said that on one occasion they saw a marshal dancing, clad only in a bra and panties...
...Monks & Mothers. The many camera-toting tourists who joined the lederhosen-and dirndl-clad Bavarians were welcomed by the Löwenbräu representatives with more than the usual enthusiasm. Reason: 582-year-old Löwenbräu, the largest Bavarian brewery, is pressing exports harder than ever. Its domestic sales are concentrated in Bavaria (well-entrenched regional breweries dominate elsewhere in Germany) and Bavarian consumption is flattening out despite the low cost of a pint bottle of beer (13?). Löwenbräu's rising exports to 100 nations now account...