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...speculation in Washington and New Delhi that Jackie's sinus condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique at an intransigent Nehru. The First Lady had ridden to hounds a fortnight ago at her Virginia estate, and last week went water-skiing off Palm Beach while her husband watched from the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. But the fact remained: Jackie had been examined by White House Physician Janet Travell and a specialist at Bethesda Naval Medical Center-and the trouble was sinus...
...south gate of Cape Canaveral, Glenn smilingly produced his identity card for the guard. Minutes later, he stood on the airstrip and shook the hand of President Kennedy, who had just flown in from Palm Beach. Like most of his fellow citizens, the President had risen early on the morning of the Glenn flight, had followed the tense hours from countdown to recovery of the capsule on his TV set. After the speeches, the President and Glenn inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral?seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described...
...fine arts. He keeps a wandering and unpredictable eye on these enterprises from a variety of homes: a 33-acre farm in New Jersey, a 117-acre estate in Hollywood, a town house near London's Hyde Park, a villa at Cap d'Antibes, a hacienda in Palm Beach, a 13-room duplex in Manhattan hung with Rubens, Winslow Homer and Mary Cassatt...
...advertising contests, the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., found itself solemnly carrying coals to Newcastle. After wading through the entries in a jingle contest pushing Columbia Pictures' Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Donnelley awarded one of the grand prizes-a minor part in Columbia's forthcoming Diamond Head-to Palm Springs Housewife Lillian Kenaston, 58, better known to middle-aged Americans as 1920s Movie Heroine Billie Dove...
Sergeants 3 (EC; United Artists), the latest fresh-air outing for Frank Sinatra's gnat pack, may have come to pass like this: the Clan members had all been to the penny-fights and Aldershot it, and they were lying around Palm Springs or Vegas talking of gin and beer. Someone turned on the box, and there, on the Old Old Show, was the 1939 rouser Gunga Din, with Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Wouldn't it be a gas, someone else inquired, to remake Gunga Din with Sammy Davis Jr. as the water...