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...were chosen by the members of the Kennedy family and an architects advisory committee during an April 12 meeting at the Hyannisport Kennedy home. The names of the architects officially will be made public later this month...
...Mops flew and paintbrushes were busy at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport. It was spring cleaning time, and special elbow grease was necessary. Lester B. Pearson, Canada's Prime Minister of a month, was flying in for the first weekend of the season, and the President wanted everything shipshape. Up from Washington hurried a special housekeeping crew to clear away the winter's cobwebs from Kennedy's rambling white clapboard cottage. Across the way at Bobby's house, where Mike Pearson would sleep, roofers scampered around repairing gutters and tacking down loose shingles. Well drillers sank...
...Hyannisport. There were no treaties to sign, no formal agreements to negotiate, and not even a communique to mark the trip, and none were needed. The talk ranged from Commonwealth trade and the Common Market, such touchy matters under Diefenbaker, to Canada's role in the inter-allied nuclear force proposed for NATO. On every count, Pearson declared himself "quite satisfied...
Then it was back home to prepare for still another visit-to the U.S. and President Kennedy. In two days snugly ensconced in the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport, Mass., he will stay in Bobby Kennedy's digs, just a football pass across the lawn from the President's own home, and the talk will go on over poached eggs at breakfast, at bull sessions lounging in overstuffed chairs, and during walks along the beach. The U.S. President wants to brief Pearson on how things look around the world, discuss trade expansion and reach some understanding on nuclear arms...
Then it was off to Hyannisport, with about two dozen other Kennedys and Kennedy kinfolk, for Thanksgiving Day. The children ate in the afternoon, then saw movies in Old Joe Kennedy's 40-seat theater; the grown Kennedys feasted at 7 p.m. on a 32-lb. turkey. Only two things marred the occasion: little John Jr. had been left back at the White House with a bad cold, and fog and a cold rain weathered out the family's annual Thanksgiving Day touch football game...