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...Harrimans. Press Secretary Pamela Turnure came and went; deliverymen made their rounds; friends and relations came to call. Dave Powers, her husband's Bos ton friend, stayed for lunch one day; Bobby Kennedy dropped in often. There were the holidays to plan for. They would be spent in Palm Beach, in a house borrowed from a family friend, C. Michael Paul, near the Joseph Kennedys. And, it was announced, after the New Year Jackie would move from the Harriman house to a buff-colored brick home, diagonally across N Street, that she bought last week...
Frank Sr. got the news at his big home in Palm Springs, 400 miles away, and turned ashen. He said later that he had once worried constantly about kidnapers, but that he hadn't thought about it for years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm...
WILLIAM A. COOK West Palm Beach...
...Kennedy's body produced one bullet that matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near the window, on the wrapping paper that was used for the "window shades," and on the carbine itself. Experts who later test-fired similar carbines agreed that a skilled man could fire such a gun three times in five seconds with practice...
...indefinite medical leave of absence. (Egbert was released from a Boston hospital at week's end after minor surgery to remove scar tissue from a successful abdominal operation last year.) Chairman Randolph Guthrie insists that he expects Egbert back. But Egbert is headed for convalescence in Palm Springs, and will say only: "After that, we'll just have to wait...