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...pleasant indeed for Joseph P. Kennedy, multimillionaire, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-and father of the President of the U.S. His son Jack, returning to Washington from a highly successful trip to South America, had stopped off to visit him in Palm Beach. In the days to come there would be the annual Christmas gathering of the Kennedy clan, with grandchildren galore, heaps of presents, and the palmiest weather that Florida could offer...
...came on a beautifully sunny day. Accompanied by Jack. Old Joe strolled out of his Palm Beach mansion and got into a waiting limousine. Just then, four-year-old Caroline Kennedy appeared at the doorway of the house. "I'm going to the airport with your father." Joseph Kennedy called. "Would you like to come along?" Of course she would. She climbed onto her grandfather's lap and went off to wave the President away for Washington...
After the President's leavetaking, Joe Kennedy returned to his home with Caroline, romped for half an hour with all his visiting grandchildren, then set off to the Palm Beach Golf Club with Ann Gargan, his favorite niece. But on the fairway to the sixth hole, he sat down on the grass, and said that he did not feel well. Ann Gargan took him to the clubhouse in a golf cart, then drove him home. In the front hall, Kennedy spoke briefly to Jackie Kennedy and to Caroline before retiring to his bedroom. He left behind him a stern...
...margarine, cooking oils, toilet articles, animal feed, canned and frozen foods, ice cream and sausages. Its 400 MacFisheries stores in Britain make it the world's largest fishmonger. One Unilever subsidiary, the United Africa Co., is the largest trader in Africa; another cultivates 213,710 acres of rubber, palm oil, cocoa and coffee plantations in six countries. With an annual ad budget of $300 million, Unilever is the world's biggest advertiser and, not surprisingly, operates one of Britain's largest advertising agencies. All told, Unilever includes 104 major companies, has 448 direct or indirect subsidiaries...
...last leg of her tour the Queen attended state receptions, inspected hospitals, reviewed troops in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. At a ceremonial durbar in the Sierra Leone provincial town of Bo, some of the paramount chiefs got so high on palm wine that they had to be carried to greet "Mama Queen II" (Queen Victoria was Mama Queen...