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...such White House functions, ashtrays were scattered about. Glass bowls contained alcoholic (domestic champagne) and unspiked punches; to guide teetotalers the nonalcoholic drink was garnished with oranges, the darker-hued champagne version with strawberries. In the State Dining Room there was a mammoth buffet of chicken à la king, roast beef, pheasant, tongue, turkey and ham. Footman John Pye, a White House servant since the days of Woodrow Wilson, declared it the finest spread of his tenure. By 11:45 the presidential host (who learned of the Cuban debacle just before the party began) had taken his leave to spend...
Monk Noland says that he used to squire Jackie around. Jim Wiley is a drawly Virginian, and sells his yearlings at Saratoga for enormous prices. Eve Fout was skiing in Switzerland at the time of the steak roast, but has since returned. She is, probably, Mrs. Kennedy's closest friend down here. Eve paints and sells traditional horse pictures, shows horses, and is one of the district commissioners of the Orange County-Middleburg U.S. Pony Club, into which Caroline will no doubt be absorbed...
...more. History happens too fast now." Others were frankly bewildered. "What can you do? What can any single citizen do?" asked Mrs. John Freter in Los Angeles. "The events seem far beyond my control. I'm afraid I end up wondering what they're selling pot roast for this week...
TIME correspondents in city after city found Americans thinking well beyond pot roast as they measured personal involvement with news. Said Sam Weller, a Salt Lake City book salesman: "We're going in the right direction now. There is no need for the United States merely to be caught up in events. We can control them." And nearly every eye was on Washington to see whether "we" - mean ing the President of the U.S. - would. "God. I hope he's up to it, " said a Los Angeles housewife apprehensively. In Albuquerque, Alice Schaab, wife of a tax lawyer...
...guests of the glittery Americana Hotel in suburban Miami sat down for a lunch of roast beef, string beans sautée with mushrooms, fondant of potatoes, salad, petits-fours and coffee. Neither butter nor cream was on the table; everything is always strictly kosher at the serious, elaborate dinners that open the annual fund-raising campaigns of the nation's most successful charity, the United Jewish Appeal...