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...younger sister Lee (now married to her second husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman turned London businessman) lived according to a social pattern as undeviating as a cotillion. Winters were spent in a Park Avenue apartment (where Black Jack indulgently permitted Jackie to keep a pet rabbit in the bathtub) while Jackie attended fashionable Chapin School. At six, Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore clock, fox-trotted through subscription dances...
...wild rabbits of Britain dig labyrinthine warrens and are hard to study intensively when at large. So Lockley surrounded two one-acre plots of grassy land in Wales with fences, put male and female rabbits in the enclosures and let nature take its course. In one plot, called the Intensive Pen, he put six bucks and six does. Grazing was plentiful and most predators were excluded, but multiplication was not rapid. During the first season the rabbit population barely doubled...
Lockley marked his rabbits with numbers and kept track of all their doings. Soon he found that they followed rigid social customs that had the effect of holding the population down. At the head of a rabbit hierarchy is a muscular, middle-aged "queen doe" who occupies the best burrow in the center of the warren. She permits some of them to shelter in the warren, but when does of lower rank have their young, she forces them to dig small nest holes in distant parts of the enclosure, where they are exposed to predators and inclement weather...
...warren is always mated to the king buck. Every evening he comes out of his quarters in the warren's best apartment and struts around, chasing lesser bucks and does out of his path. His arrogance is most unpleasant, but Lockley believes it is an advantage to rabbit society. The lesser rabbits seldom oppose the king, and his dominance keeps fighting to a minimum...
...welcome at the West Palm Beach airport, spent long hours in the villa and on the golf course, was treated to an after-dark press conference in the patio. Midway in talk about the need for an ambassador-at-large, Caroline Kennedy toddled out, wearing a robe with a rabbit-eared hood and carrying a pair of her mother's black shoes. "Hi, Daddy," she said. "Aren't you going to come in?" Daddy blushed scarlet beneath his tan, murmured his answer ("In a few minutes") as he helped his daughter on with the outsize shoes, grinned...