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...scene of the national drag-racing championship, liquor stores were closed on Sunday by state law, but 150 hot-rodders surged through the streets yelling "We want booze." More than 75 state police and sheriff's deputies were called up to control the mob. In the Cape Cod resort towns of Falmouth and Hyannis, 240 summering students were arrested for drunkenness, disorderly conduct and traffic violations...
Elegant & Salty. Most informal gathering place for the Kennedy family is the 4.7-acre Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod, where President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and their father each have a weathered, roomy summer "cottage." Nerve center of the compound is Father Joe Kennedy's "Big House" overlooking Nantucket Sound, a rambling, shingled, 18-room structure with a three-gabled roof and wide porches that is as New England as a swallowed r. The Big House is both elegant and salty. In an illuminated, glass-paneled display case is Rose Kennedy's collection of more than...
...astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like it; the beachboat Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies of cod; the destroyer Harvester, built on contract for Brazil, had all its gunnery instructions in Portuguese; a Dominican friar skippered the armed yacht Gulzar...
...Saga are hauntingly familiar: a garden party that is entertained by the Bidcombe Platinum Band recalls the garden party of Decline and Fall, with its Llanabba Silver Band. And Auberon has both his father's love of fantastic Dickensian names (Percy-Scroop-Beauchamp, Nurse Proudfoot, Mrs. Cod-Finger) and his hilarious sense of incongruity...
...flacks were proudly pointing out that numerous radio stations had banned Presidential Press Conference in the national interest. But it is actually only half bad. Some of the jokes are just mad enough for laughter, and Sicknik Sandy Baron does an excellent imitation of President Kennedy's cod-sent voice...