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With her nurse and her federal guard in tow, Caroline attended a birthday party fortnight ago for three-year-old Ivan Steers, son of Jackie Kennedy's stepsister, Nina Auchincloss Steers. It was a bright, sunny day in suburban Bethesda, Md., and the party was outdoors, beside the Steers's swimming pool. While Caroline's nurse was changing, the other nurses and mothers helped Ivan's guests into their bathing suits; Caroline got suited up faster than anyone else. She slipped into the pool at the shallow end, grabbed a kiddie-sized surfboard and began...
...technique is both simple and lethal. Operating to depths of 100 ft. without special breathing apparatus, Scotty relies on his own aquatic agility and a deadly "powerhead," a 5-ft. metal pole topped by a steel tube loaded with a 12-gauge shotgun shell. Fortnight ago, on his way to the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team School at Little Creek, Va., he slipped into the ice-blue waters off Key West, Fla., for an enjoyable afternoon of shark shooting. A couple of fathoms below the surface, he nonchalantly stuffed chunks of a freshly killed, 7-ft. sting ray into...
...dislike of "compulsory arbitration" that led Congressman John F. Kennedy to vote against the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 was still plainly visible last week in President Kennedy. As the fortnight-old maritime strike began closing down oil refineries in Texas and threatening residents of Puerto Rico and Hawaii with a diet of bananas and pineapples, the President's "fact-finding" board, which he appointed to determine whether the strike menaced the nation's health and safety, spent most of its time trying to revive negotiations between the shipowners and the seamen...
...continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from their paper planning on Laos to give advice on Cuba; Nitze and Attorney General Robert Kennedy added their potent voices in council. Fortnight ago, the President created still another Latin America specialist, sent U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on a prestige-building, length-of-the-continent trip. Inevitably, the efficiency of the State Department regulars has suffered. Since January, four of the top Latin American experts in the Foreign Service have resigned or transferred...
...Last fortnight committee negotiators went to Havana to offer Castro some 500 farm tractors, worth about $2,500,000, in return for the release of 1,214 prisoners Castro had taken in the Bay of Pigs invasion. But Castro upped his demands, insisted on $28 million worth of tractors, and imposed other impossible requirements. The negotiators returned to the U.S., consulted with committee leaders, who last week sent Castro an ultimatum: either accept the committee's original offer-or else...