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Berlin was the worst point of international crisis. As the week began, the President hurried back to the White House from Hyannisport to greet Vice President Lyndon Johnson, just returned from his morale-shoring trip to West Berlin. Throughout the week, Communist provocations in Berlin continued (see THE WORLD), until finally came the most direct and dangerous Red challenge of all: a Soviet threat to cut off Allied air access to the beleaguered city. Kennedy reacted swiftly and with unmistakable determination. The White House issued a statement that ranks as one of the toughest of the cold war: "The United...
Elegant & Salty. Most informal gathering place for the Kennedy family is the 4.7-acre Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod, where President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and their father each have a weathered, roomy summer "cottage." Nerve center of the compound is Father Joe Kennedy's "Big House" overlooking Nantucket Sound, a rambling, shingled, 18-room structure with a three-gabled roof and wide porches that is as New England as a swallowed r. The Big House is both elegant and salty. In an illuminated, glass-paneled display case is Rose Kennedy's collection of more than...
...Kennedy grandchildren, the best places at Hyannisport are the tennis court, the dock and the newest social center, the trampoline. The mothers-Jackie, Ethel, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith-have divided the children into two groups to avoid confusion and to make swimming, riding and sailing lessons easier: Group I includes the children in the six-to-nine age bracket: Group II. those aged five and under. A master chart details where which children are supposed to go on which days at what time. Despite her youth, Caroline Kennedy has one advantage over...
...year's most clandestine airlifts, a White House craft early this month furtively shuttled from Hamtramck, Mich., to Hyannisport, Mass. Aboard was Hamtramck's Director of Tennis Jean Raymond Hoxie, fiftyish, a leathery blonde Barnard graduate whose singleminded enthusiasm has converted the tough, working-class Detroit district into a fertile Forest Hills farm club. Summoned to the weekend White House to give a tennis lesson to Jacqueline Kennedy. Mrs. Hoxie brusquely chivied Secret Service men into action ("What are all of you just lounging around for? Pick up a racket and start hitting some balls") but reserved...
Seconds later, U.S. radar watchers knew a Russian spaceship was aloft, flashed word to Western tracking stations around the world. (In Hyannisport, it was 2 a.m.; President Kennedy had been alerted the night before that the Soviets had started a countdown for a manned shot, and was not awakened.) It was more than an hour before Tass interrupted radio and television programs to tell the Russian people of the new Soviet space triumph. By then, Titov, orbiting at 17,750 m.p.h., had finished one full 88-minute trip around the earth and dutifully reported by radio that all was well...