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...luncheon with former President Dwight Eisenhower and Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda (see Foreign Relations), Kennedy put the crutches aside, walked around with his guests in his old hands-in-the-pocket manner. When the President took Ikeda for a short Potomac cruise on the presidential yacht, Honey Fitz,* Kennedy hobbled up the gangplank without crutches...
...some Washington observers, it seemed singularly inappropriate to entertain a friendly Japanese dignitary aboard a ship, even if the ship's name happened to be the Honey Fitz and not the U.S.S. Missouri. To other Washingtonians, any sort of Potomac cruise just seemed like a big bore. Asked one wag: "What's duller than a boat ride down the Potomac?" The answer: "The boat ride back...
BOTOLPH GROUP: Sculpture and wallhangings in a religious vein by Clark and Leah Fitz-Gerald. May 8 through June...
...Fitz-John, Ambassador from Sierra Leone, a country which receives is independence from the British on April 27 noted that in view of "the embarrassing position of the United States in regard to its NATO friends," the Angola vote in the United Nations "was a very heroic stand." He and many other African representatives said they saw no reason to "doubt the good faith" of the U.S. in the Cuba crisis...
Particularly emphasized by both the Africans and Williams was the need for careful selection and training of Corps personnel. Fitz-John hoped the students "would be highly motivated and extremely well prepared." Williams called for "realistic methods of selection" which would take into account "the very hard life these people would have to live...