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Kennedy supporters started mobilizing those forces only hours after helping to dedicate the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston on Oct. 20. They had held off until then because the Senator did not want the ceremony to be turned into a political event???a grace note that somehow was not communicated to his nephew Joe, who made a fiery attack on the Carter Administration's energy and economic policies. That day, at a strategy session, Kennedy's top advisers made plans for a money-raising blitz that will qualify him for federal campaign matching funds within a week...
...second day came the demanding event???the most important in the scoring?that the 70,000 spectators in the Horse Park had waited eagerly to see: the four-part endurance run over a course so tough that many experts there called it the most strenuous in the world. Among those watching was Britain's Prince Philip, president of the International Equestrian Federation and a fine rider himself; he was, he said, glad he did not have to compete over the course...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event???an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished...
...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event???her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...
WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event???Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...