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...much publicity. But despite all her parents' efforts, Caroline is a real Kennedy: she makes news. She came clutching her mother's shoes into a presidential press conference at Palm Beach. Carefully rehearsed, she was on hand to proffer a fresh rose to an enchanted Nehru at Newport. Once, Kennedy had to break off a TV filming to go and wipe Caroline's offstage tears ("Who's crying in this house?" he demanded). Again the President of the U.S., spending a weekend at Glen Ora, was heard to say impatiently: "Hurry up, Caroline. I want...
...article on "The Sea" [Dec. 1] makes reference to Julian Harvey's yacht striking the submerged wreck of the U.S.S. Texas in Chesapeake Bay. The U.S.S. Texas left Newport News, Va., in July 1946 to be towed to Texas. Can you enlighten me as to how the Texas got back to Chesapeake...
Ratterman campaigned on a promise to clean out Newport-and the city's vice lords set out to double-team him. They framed him by giving him knockout drops, then arranging to have him arrested in bed with a stripper named April Flowers. The courts cleared Ratterman, who is the father of eight children, and a grand jury later indicted Newport's Police Chief Upshere White on a charge of having conspired to railroad Ratterman...
Ratterman's election was won not in Newport itself but by a flood of votes from the rest of the county. That made him even more determined to reform Newport. Said he: "I will call on the Governor, the Federal Government and even the United Nations, if necessary, to enforce law and order.'' A couple of beefy football squads might help...
...conversations began in the Newport, R.I., home of Jacqueline Kennedy's mother and stepfather, then moved to Washington. The Kennedy family did its beguiling best to charm Nehru. Little Caroline Kennedy presented him with a red rosebud. Jackie Kennedy took him to see her dog cemetery on the Newport grounds, where rest three deceased pets. As for the President and the Prime Minister, they found that their mutual interest in history was a bond. They parted with feelings of friendship and respect, along with a formal pledge "to keep closely in touch with each other in the months...