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Later that afternoon, President Kennedy got further word of his father's illness. His Bermuda conference with Brit ain's Harold Macmillan was less than 48 hours away. But there could be no doubt that Jack Kennedy would fly first to his father's bedside. "I'm going," Kennedy told Salinger. "Get things ready...
Between visits to the hospital. President Kennedy conferred with his aides, tried to keep abreast of his official duties. From Bermuda. Harold Macmillan offered to fly to Palm Beach for his talks with the President, or to call off the conference altogether. But when the doctors reported that Joseph Kennedy might continue in his semicomatose condition for weeks. the President decided to go ahead with his Bermuda plans...
Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield's twelve-line ode, "On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,"* Queen Elizabeth II returned to England last week from her four-week, 7,000-mile visit to four West African countries. With her the Queen brought some six tons of luggage and gifts, including a baby crocodile, reportedly with divine powers, for Prince Andrew. Behind her she had left a residue of good feeling toward the Crown and Commonwealth-as well as her huband, Prince Philip, who was attending the Tanganyikan independence ceremonies. (Perhaps...
Despite the bone-wearying sameness of all the picturesque festivities laid out for them, both the Queen and Prince Philip maintained their poise and ready sense of humor, provided more than a million West Africans with a new view of the erstwhile "imperialist oppressors." Said Prime Minister Macmillan in the House of Commons, moving a "loyal address to the throne": "I venture to say that of the many journeys which she and His Royal Highness have so tirelessly undertaken, none has been crowned with greater success than this...
...DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH, by Eric Partridge (1,362 pp.; Macmillan; $16). The fifth edition of this highly regarded work is considerably enlarged, and an even greater delight to logomaniacs than the first four. Lexicographer Partridge pads resolutely after creeping neologism, and one finds that since 1920 "without a mintie" has been Australian sporting slang for penniless, and that "boat race" is current Cockney rhyming slang for face. There is no end to this; it is ceaselessly fascinating to learn that between 1780 and 1830, "to dance the Paddington frisk" meant to be hanged, that "painted mischief...