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Working seven days a week, including Christmas, Forrestal had little social life. He prided himself on being able to attend a cocktail party, greet the hostess, down a martini, exchange a few pleasantries and take his leave-all in eight minutes. At 34, Forrestal married a New York socialite and Vogue editor, Josephine Ogden, whose friends were all café society. They had two sons, but before long the couple were leading separate lives. Forrestal, who avoided emotional attachments all his life, hardly even spoke to his boys until they were ready to enter college...
Convicts & Jets. Church bells tolled a greeting as the papal entourage passed along the streets of Rome. Despite the tight schedule that Vatican officials had toyed and fussed with all week, the Pope took the journey at his own pace. Once he stopped to greet a delegation of convicts from Regina Coeli prison, another time to bless a crowd gathered in the village of Acilia. At the windswept airport the Pope shook hands with a platform-full of dignitaries, including Italian President Antonio Segni and Premier Aldo Moro. Clearly enjoying his venture, the Pope blessed the crowd (tough old Socialist...
...around Israel and get an escort of Jordanian Air Force fighter planes before setting down at Amman around noon. Despite the personal character of his trip, the Pope will have to accept the pomp of welcome due to a head of state: King Hussein will be on hand to greet him, and cannons will roar out a 21-gun salute...
During the flight to Cairo aboard a chartered KLM DC-7, Chou stripped down to long underwear for a seven-hour sleep, wolfed hearty portions of Russian caviar before landing. Though Egyptian authorities provided an enthusiastic crowd to greet the Chinese Premier, the official welcome was somewhat restrained. President Nasser-in Tunisia to attend ceremonies marking France's withdrawal from the Bizerte naval base when Chou arrived-got back to Cairo in time to give a lavish banquet at Abdin Palace. He presented Red China's premier with Egypt's highest decoration-the Collar of the Nile...
...When local cops tumbled to the game, Belle had a choice of going on trial there or back home. Home was where the clink is cleaner, and Belle was hustled aboard a New York-bound jet by a gent from Interpol. Two FBI men showed up at Idlewild to greet him, and after health authorities officially welcomed him with an on-the-spot smallpox shot, he was taken off to face 79 federal counts of financial transgression...