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Paries & Polar Bears. In Boston, following a time-worn custom, Herald Managing Editor George Minot dispatched a platoon of newsmen to summer resorts on Cape Cod. "We just tell the reporter to drive and look," said Minot, "and whenever he sees an old lady doing nothing-talk to her." The Omaha World-Herald began a series on the city's 74 parks that could well last out the summer. The San Francisco Chronicle trumpeted an event that knows no season: HE FOUND LOVE IN ICE CREAM PARLOR. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman and the Topeka Daily Capital sent photographers...
...vacation houses that are flowering in the land are not necessarily modern. Cape Cod cottages are sprouting on Cape Cod and off it, and prefab log cabins are proliferating beside lakes and trout streams-and even, as in the mountains just west of Denver, in regular rows like any suburban subdivision, with a few pine trees for greenery and a snowcapped mountain range for scenery...
...Congress was not of much use now. The major battles were over, and some key ones lost-but there was international politicking to be done, and without stirring from Washington. Accompanied by his mother. Rose Kennedy, who is the President's official hostess while Jackie is on Cape Cod, he went out to Washington National Airport to welcome Ecuador's President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington's stiff reaction...
...President, whose vacation does not come till Jackie returns from Italy, last week continued his weekend jaunts to Cape Cod, where he joined in a family celebration of Jackie's 33rd birthday. Otherwise, most of the time at the Cape is devoted to the Kennedys' own Little Olympics. Rain or shine, the unbroken pace goes on from dawn until dusk. The first Kennedy swim of the day on weekends is likely to be at 7 a.m., preceded by a run of a mile or so up the beach. Since sitting down is somehow considered bad form, touch football...
...along the way. time will be allowed in Plymouth to see Plymouth Rock, a fine reconstruction of the original Pilgrim settlement, and the Mayflower exact reconstruction of the original ship). The tour will also Plymouth museum, and the old cemetery; if there is time, will continue to the Cape Cod Canal...