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Beauty & Business. Adding to such cares of international crisis were more ordinary diplomatic, political, ceremonial, social, and even parental problems. Leaving the J.C.S. conference on Berlin, Kennedy changed into white tie and tails to preside at a state dinner for Peru's President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche (see THE HEMISPHERE). As Hurricane Esther swept toward Cape Cod, he put a call through to his father in Hyannisport, asked if Daughter Caroline and Son John ought to be moved from the summer house to higher ground. At 5 a.m. on Thursday, the President's children, along with...
Ever the perfect patrician, Peru's President Manuel Prado, 72, descended the planeside steps at Washington's MATS terminal one day last week with the sure and jaunty gait of a boulevardier revisiting a familiar haunt. He gripped President Kennedy's hand, bowed with gallant grace to kiss the gloved hand of Madame la Présidente, Jacqueline. So taken was Jackie that she nearly forgot to present the roses she was carrying to Prado's elegant and equally aristocratic wife, Clorinda. Prado, whose innate courtliness has carried him through ten such state visits around...
Recalling Prado's last state visit as Peru's President during World War II, Kennedy welcomed his visitor as an old friend: "President Roosevelt wanted President Prado to come to our country to express his esteem for him and his leadership against the Axis. Nearly 20 years later, President Prado comes again. The U.S. President is different, times have changed, the adversaries now take a different form. But I believe that both Peru and the U.S., still standing shoulder to shoulder, fight for the same things...
...decided that the apse was something that The Cloisters had to have. With the help of the U.S. embassy, he began negotiations. After ten years, the government agreed to "lend" the apse to The Cloisters if the Met in turn would buy six Spanish frescoes to "lend" to the Prado and undertake the restoration of another church in Fuentiduena. The Bishop of Segovia agreed to the transaction, after clearing it with the Vatican...
...whom the narrator-heroine Fanny has to cope in Don't Tell Alfred. Another is Son Basil, full of spivish schemes such as a telly-rest coach for British tourists whose feet and palates are weak: "When they gets to the place they've come to seethe Prado, say, or some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver...