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...Apollo was born, off from the outside world for a day, so that Jackie could enjoy its rubbled splendors alone. At Mykonos, an island with a population of 5,000 and 333 churches, every wall in the capital city, and even the cobblestoned streets, had been given a fresh coat of whitewash. In a tavern in Hydra, Jackie enthusiastically joined a group of natives dancing the Kalamatianos...
...stories sounded like a relic from a world that never was. But Karl von Wiegand brought that world alive. He was a living legend, whose very name might have been lifted from E. Phillips Oppenheim. He was the stage version of the foreign correspondent, complete with collar-up trench coat, brim-down hat, and blackthorn cane. He was a man who had known Hitler in 1921, interviewed two Popes, chartered the Graf Zeppelin for a trip around the world, covered twelve wars and been wounded in two. He had been a working newspaperman for 62 years...
...capitalist ways of life. After the luncheon, in a now familiar Kennedy routine, the President took his guest by the arm, suggested a short walk in the garden, alone but for their interpreters. As they strolled around the garden's tree-shaded pond, Kennedy stuffed his hands in his coat pockets; Khrushchev occasionally launched an animated gesture...
...fame until now was flunking out of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth while AWOL in pursuit (despite a wife and six children) of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (to whom he gave a $5,500 Mercedes-Benz, a $17,000 chinchilla coat). Commissioned by Daddy as an army colonel at the age of three and promoted to brigadier general at nine, Ramfis has little in his record to suggest the tenacity and talent needed to cope with the chaos he has inherited...