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...last week-it had been busy as usual-President Kennedy went to National Airport to bid a fond farewell to his wife, off on her trip to India. He intently watched as the plane began to move; when he saw Jackie wave from the window, he broke into a grin. As for himself, he was about to take off for Florida and a weekend rest-and also for a bit of politicking, which to him is both recreation and lifeblood, and one of the reasons he is able to stay on top of his job and feel jaunty...
From his reception at the White House through the rain-soaked ride up Pennsylvania Avenue, Glenn acted as though he had been in the limelight all his life. He flashed a grin reminiscent of Eisenhower's, turned his head in every direction for the crowds like a campaigning Kennedy. Perched on the back seat of the President's bubble-top Lincoln, he ignored the dismal drizzle, kept a protective left arm around his radiant wife Annie, and occasionally thrust out his other arm to shake the hand of daring youngsters who darted through the police lines...
...soaking up the sun in Palm Desert, Calif., playing golf, working on his memoirs, and keeping his own counsel. Then, last week, he flew into Los Angeles for a round of speechmaking that proved he still had the old political magic: he stopped traffic for blocks around, flashed the grin at supporters wearing buttons that proclaimed, "I Miss Ike." packed the Hollywood Palladium for a speech at the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet, and drew nearly 100 to hear him talk at a Republican fund-raising dinner-at $500 a plate...
OKLAHOMA'S Democratic Representative Carl Bert Albert, 53, is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, wears an elfin grin, and is so inconspicuous that he might be mistaken for a filing clerk in his own office. But Albert has qualities that should serve him well as majority floor leader: he combines an abiding love of the House with a shrewd sense of its mood that has earned him respect on both sides of the aisle and at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...that, as he boasts, even the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. has signed up to produce Snia's caprolactam, raw material for nylon. As head of one of the world's largest exporting companies, Marinotti brushes aside talk of Common Market challenges. Says he with a grin: "I've always been in the Common Market...