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Imperiousness had pervaded the announcement from start to finish. Hav- ing decided that 8 p.m. would be the most propitious hour to make it, le grand Charles called radio and television crews into the Elysee Palace's Salle des Fetes two hours before that. Then, for eight minutes, he...
The evening of Oct. 7, 1960, Jackie Kennedy's husband was due to appear on television for the second of four live-TV debates with Richard Nixon. What to do? If you are Jackie Kennedy, you send invitations to a handful of close friends to watch the debate with...
Under the heavily encrusted ceiling of the Elysee Palace's Salle des Fetes, one thousand newsmen and the French Cabinet sat in splendor on spindly gilt chairs, buzzing to themselves in the perfumed heat. Precisely at 3 o'clock, the buzzing stopped, a white-gloved valet parted the...
But after that, the white exodus to the suburbs changed the neighborhood into a Negro enclave. Negro lawyers, doctors and businessmen bought the comfortable houses along La Salle Boulevard that were vacated by whites. Poorly educated Negroes, including migrants from the South, poured into nearby tenements to supply the bulk...
Vesper almost did not get into the trials at all, thanks to a mix-up in the mails. Their registration arrived after the deadline: only a last-minute decision by the U.S. Olympic Committee allowed them to compete. Seeded fourth, be hind California, Harvard and Washing ton, Vesper did not...