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Polite Police. At the Mississippi line a similar escort, but with fixed bayonets, picked up the caravan for the trip to Jackson. Someone hurled a rock at the bus, but most of the spectators just stared, took pictures, or waved derisively...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...
...violence was not all on one side. Moslem terrorists in Oran raped a French girl and cut her escort's throat. They killed a French prison guard, a Jewish taxi driver, a Moslem with pro-French sympathies, and tossed a grenade in a Constantine bar, wounding 16. F.L.N. men raided a factory and killed four Europeans, broke in on a wedding and mowed down four guests...
...Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared scarved, barelegged and besandaled at Good Friday services. For Sunday she had assembled her standard pillbox...
...Harding," a playboy-adventurer who touched glasses with kings and brushed elbows with death, the best-dressed man on five continents and a dozen battlefields, an image of masculine beauty who sat as Charles Dana Gibson's model for the beau idéal of the day: the escort of the famed Gibson girl...