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Other Plans. Only three hours earlier, Jack Kennedy had kissed his wife and daughter goodbye and flown off again to Palm Beach. The three had spent a relaxed Thanksgiving Day together with just one guest, Friend and Neighbor William Walton. The baby was not due for another month. But before Jack was halfway back to Florida that night, his wife had a hemorrhage, and the baby made it unmistakably clear that it had other plans...
...Caroline had just landed on the rain-soaked runway at Palm Beach airport and was taxiing up to the apron when the message came in over the pilot's radio that an emergency telephone call was waiting. Hostess Janet Desrosiers rushed back with the message to Jack Kennedy's rear compartment. As he emerged from the plane, Kennedy was told that his wife was in the hospital. He paused only long enough to shout back at the plane, "We'll be going right back," then hurried grimly to the phone behind a flying wedge of Secret Service...
...Back in Palm Beach, Jack Kennedy busied himself with some thick reports on the state of the nation and the world, received a parade of guests, and relaxed in the sun and the surf when he found the time...
Each year when the time comes for Morocco's three-day independence blowout, a kindly foreign friend is called upon to pick up most of the tab. In 1959 the U.S. donated a fleet of trucks and armored vehicles to roll in the parade down the palm-lined streets of King Mohammed V's old capital of Marrakech. This year the U.S. dutifully came through with another $3,500,000 worth of motorized equipment and weapons-part of a fiveyear, $20 million military-aid program...
...found they were pregnant with football bladders filled with booze. Some bootleggers use lepers as delivery boys, confident that the police will shy away from searching them. Others cache their product in containers tied to the underside of manhole covers. Law enforcement is nightmarish in a land filled with palm trees that need only to be tapped to give the hard liquor ingredients of palm toddy...