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Deep below deck, with all the mindless certainty of a Ouija board, a marking pen moved by steel fingers glided across a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay. As he followed the pen's thin red line, a Navy lieutenant, cut off from any view of the water, telephoned commands to the bridge. At each command, the helmsman altered course, and the 65-ft. test ship Alan threaded neatly among islands and inlets. Each change in direction and speed was instantly recorded by the moving...
Back in Washington, the President sent a bouquet and congratulations to his maternal grandmother, Mrs. John F. Fitzgerald, who marked her 98th birthday in Boston. Looking forward to next year's vacations, the White House announced that the First Family had leased Annandale Farm on Narragansett Bay at Newport, R.I., for the months of August and September. Annandale, the same estate that a group of Rhode Islanders wanted to buy and present to Kennedy as a permanent summer White House in 1962, will replace the First Family's summer home at Squaw Island in Hyannis Port...
...daughter of Investment Broker Hugh D. Auchincloss and half sister of Jacqueline Kennedy (who sent a bouquet, insisted the party go on despite her own recent tragedy). The Auchincloss estate, Hammersmith Farm, was done up in Venetian style, with colored lanterns, a pink marquee on the lawn overlooking Narragansett Bay, Meyer Davis' orchestra in gondolier garb, gondolier hats for the young men and golden masks for the young ladies. Janet, in a white strapless gown by Dior, looked like a cinch to get invitations to the season's best parties...
...time-honored custom. Until eight years ago, Rhode Island's Rudolph F. Haffenreffer, the Narragansett beer king, owned the 6,130-ft. Mount Hope suspension bridge on Route 114, which then averaged about 5,000 cars a day, paying 60? a passage...
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