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...Jackie whizzed out into the choppy bay behind an Italian navy speedboat, holding Caroline on the water skis ahead of her. It was great sport for 100 yards-until mother and daughter nosedived into the water. An afternoon's outing to swim at a public beach drew an escort of a navy cutter and two police launches, which tried futilely to keep the omnipresent photographers at a distance. "We have never failed." trumpeted the leader of the long-lensed paparazzi pack; and Jackie graciously consented to pose, hoping they would take it a little easier in the future...
...feet, the 65-year-old sometime M.P. mounted an open truck amid a hail of rotten fruit and heavy English pennies (which were seldom so wasted in Depression days). Before he could open the meeting, the brawl was on. Within minutes, Mosley was led away under heavy police escort, while grim-faced bobbies arrested...
...London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country whose life is based on democratic institutions and constitutional guarantees." Waiting to escort the spy the rest of the way home were two U.S. marshals, and the Justice Department made ready a bed in the Springfield, Mo., Medical Center for Federal Prisoners...
...London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks and spoons...
...endless line of degree candidates and dignitaries formed in the Old Yard at Harvard's first fully normal Commencement since the war, George C. Marshall chatted with Edmund M. Morgan, then Royall Professor of Law. Morgan, who was to escort the secretary of State in the procession to the steps of Memorial Church, mentioned that Marshall's apparent anxiety about his coming performance was unusual. "He assured me that he was expected to say something of importance", recalls Morgan, "Who expected it? He did not specify...