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...left behind him a stern injunction: "Don't call any doctors." But the family, worried by his ashen appearance, ignored the order. After the doctor arrived, Joe Kennedy, still wearing a sports shirt and golf shorts, was taken from bed and driven in a private ambulance with motorcycle escort to St. Mary's Hospital, where the chaplain gave him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Kennedy's hardest working supporters during the 1960 campaign, Reuther had every right to expect that he would be placed on the committee assigned to greet President Kennedy at the labor convention. But Meany deliberately left Reuther's name off the committee list, assigned him instead to escort a subsequent convention visitor-Eleanor Roosevelt...
...coalition: Communist Prince Souphanouvong, "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, and pro-Western Prince Boun Oum. Boun Oum invited the others to meet with him in the capital city of Vientiane; they agreed, on condition each could bring no troops and 30 advisers, but Boun Oum would allow a total escort of only 120, soldiers included. And so it went...
...crowd of youths clutched the corners of a Dominican flag and raced through the streets, shouting "Liberty by Christmas!" They did not have that long to wait. For the crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family. Would he ever return to the Dominican Republic? Generalissimo...
...weeks ago, the intersection at Berlin's "Checkpoint Charlie" was taut with tension as the U.S.-on order from General Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's representative in West Berlin-sent armed convoys across the border to escort civilian-dressed military personnel into the Russian sector to demonstrate U.S. right of access. But last week, on direct orders from the State Department, the probes were called off. At the same time, Washington stopped U.S. patrols along the 110-mile Autobahn that links West Germany with the divided city. Reason: Secretary of State Dean Rusk was anxious to shift...