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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the trial finally gets beyond the preliminaries, the prosecution is expected to lead off with a long line of witnesses to prove first-degree murder. Among them: Karl Eucker, the Ambassador's assistant maitre d'hótel, who was shaking Kennedy's hand at the moment he was shot and was the first to grab Sirhan. He had described the shooting to the grand jury as "very deliberate." Two of Kennedy's companions, former L.A. Ram Lineman Roosevelt Grier, who wrestled with Sirhan, and Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, who knocked the pistol from...
...Kennedy, who added new luster to Wasp ideals. He was such a model Wasp with his dry humor, his laconic eloquence and his lack of sentimentality, that he set a style which encouraged many authentic upper-class Wasps to take heart and to run for political office. John D. Rockefeller IV was one. He was followed by George Bush in Texas, William L. Saltonstall and John Winthrop Sears in Massachusetts and Bronson La Follette in Wisconsin. "In previous times, you had to be born in a log cabin to be elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been...
...Post Editor and Writer W. Thornton ("Pete") Martin: "He used to have a tailor come in and take his measurements right in the office. And he used to take a trip to Europe every year and come back loaded down with Oriental rugs, Chippendale furniture and tapestries. He'd have them all uncrated in the Post hallways for all the editors to see. He was a giant...
...international society, he ran around with Aly Khan, Rubi Rubirosa and Spain's auto-racing Marquis de Portago. Gianni's crowd gathered in Paris, London and Buenos Aires, at the Palace in St. Moritz, at his own 28-room villa at Beaulieu on the Cóte d'Azur...
More interested in bullion than beauty, the Spanish conquistadores who overran the Indians in the 16th century systematically plundered all the golden artifacts they could find, either converting them to ingots on the spot or shipping them to Spain to be melted down. As a result, pre-Columbian objets d'art are so rare that any display of them is a notable event...