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...attention was focused on the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, the Administration was feeling the numbness of its approaching end, and the President was taking a long vacation in Newport, R.I.-in short, it was a good week for Nikita Khrushchev to stir up as much trouble as he could. He hurled at the U.S. a series of accusations, insults, threats and challenges that in an earlier day, when weapons were less destructive and threats more lethal, might have been enough to set off a war. In rapid succession, Khrushchev...
...stern of a small dory with other members of his family crowded behind him. ("I've got to get nine Kennedys in that boat with him.") For the big night, Jackie's stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, her mother, half brother and half sister drove to Hyannisport from Newport, watched doggedly through the nominating speeches, floor demonstrations and roll call while Jackie painted. Jack called just before the balloting and just after, but in the quiet mood of Hyannisport Jackie didn't grasp that he had won until her mother and stepfather came over and kissed...
Even without the riots, the rebels feel, the old-style Newport Festival was doomed-it was too big, too square and too interested in box office instead of music. Even if the festival is revived next year, it will hardly be the same again. Langston Hughes summed...
Though I got the Newport blues...
Those sad, bad Goodbye Newport blues...