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...dark-haired Jacqueline Bouvier, daughter of Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III. He had met her a year before at a friend's home ("I leaned across the asparagus," says Kennedy, "and asked her for a date"). In September 1953, Senator Jack and Socialite Jackie were married in Newport, with some 2,000 people arriving in chartered buses to stand outside while Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing performed the nuptial Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Jackie soon found out what it meant to be a Kennedy: she broke an ankle playing touch football...
...upstate Newport one day last week, Jean G. Archambault, a 21-year-old farmer, seemed to prove the commissioner's point. Worried about finances and about plans to leave the land to work in a plywood plant, he walked out to the barn, tossed a rope over a rafter, adjusted a noose and hanged himself...
Also celebrating was P. Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold and Newport cigarettes), whose third-quarter earnings were $1.02 a share, v. 22? last year. Pharmaceuticals were also up. Abbott Laboratories' sales for the nine months increased 12%, while profits rose 16%. G. D. Searle & Co. reported quarter profits up 21% on a sales boost of 18%. In the auto industry, General Motors' earnings were off 11%, but Chrysler and Ford both reported huge increases (see Autos...
...million tons of steel a year round the world−13% of the world's product. Krupp's technicians are running up 41 waterside cranes in Pakistani ports, a dozen road-bridges in Colombia, a port coal-loading device for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Newport News...
...always been, to assume full responsibility for maintaining law and order in Little Rock." The words "by me" would give Faubus an out to let someone else do the obstructing, and everybody knew how he had "maintained law and order" before. Burned once by the conference with Faubus at Newport (TIME, Sept. 23), Ike declared the whole statement unsatisfactory, called off the negotiations...