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While the 65 youngsters scrambled around an old island fortress off the coast of Plymouth, England, and took lessons in sailing, rock climbing, canoeing and camping, they were watched from shore by Secret Service agents peering through binoculars. A youth conspiracy under scrutiny? Actually, the watchers were agents assigned to protect ten-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr., who with his cousin Anthony Radziwill had enrolled for two weeks in the youth center for the standard fee of $75 a person. "I'm not sure why Mrs. Onassis decided to send him to us," said an official...
...Devils of Loudun and a play by John Whiting. It presents the Jesuit Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) as a sexually profligate and politically dangerous priest who threatens the intricate schemes of the insatiable Cardinal Richelieu. To gain control of the walled city of Loudun-thus crushing a steadfast fortress of independence in France -Richelieu and his minions engineer a trial at which Grandier stands accused of inducing hysteria in a convent of Ursuline nuns...
...Jackson fortress wraps itself around a pool; it has walkways and plants growing all around; there is a basketball half court, badminton court, an archery range and, inside, a pool table in a sunken rec room and a den that looks like a cross between a motel lobby and the foyer of a Sunset Boulevard record company. The walls are plastered with platinum records (each signifying $2,000,000 in sales) and various other trophies the boys have picked up. For furniture, there is a bar, a stereo with big speakers and leatherette couches...
Though he could not talk, he was self-reliant beyond his twelve years, and armed with a feeling of superiority that comes naturally to survivors. In retrospect, Kosinski compared himself to a locked fortress, "making no noise, so no one knew how many troops there really were inside...
...size in the world (50 squadrons, some 1,200 aircraft) when its Vietnamization is completed by 1974 or 1975. Its local and regular ground forces and navy, already 90% to 95% trained and equipped, will reach their full 1,100,000-man strength some time next year. By then Fortress South Viet Nam will be the second most muscular military power in Asia, ranking ahead of Taiwan (600,000), South Korea (620,000) and India (1,000,000), and behind only Communist China...