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...Republican Party, that hour arrived this week in a supremely suitable setting. A ten-mile strip of sand reclaimed from the mangrove swamps and crocodiles a scant half century ago, Miami Beach easily matches anything the G.O.P. Convention can offer in the way of razzmatazz. The swamps have yielded to well-manicured palms and aquamarine swimming pools laid out almost end to end. The crocodiles have given way to a rather more rapacious species - sharks capable of picking an unwary tourist's wallet to the bone in no time. Along the shore, multistoried luxury hotels and condominium apartments march...
...From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke the ice in 1860. The 24th is blank, but the conventioneers, their euphoria heightened by the sun, surf and sand of Miami Beach, are confident that it will some day bear the likeness of whomever the G.O.P. happens to nominate this week...
...Just as she has done every day during her six-week stay at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport this summer, Jackie Kennedy celebrated her 39th birthday skimming over Nantucket Sound. Then she collected an assortment of Kennedy children and treated them to an alfresco picnic on Egg Island, a sand bar that was a J.F.K. favorite during his summer White House days. Came evening, and she was at Father-in-Law Joe Kennedy's house for a quiet family dinner and a private screening of The Thomas Crown Affair, the story of a swinging Boston millionaire-turned-bank-robber...
...JOURNAL. "Plumes for My Rich Aunt." British Journalist Alan Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain...
...Galaxy military transport measures barely 10 yds. shorter than a football field, sports a tail assembly as tall as a six-story building, and has a cargo compartment that is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight off the side of North Carolina's Kill Devil Hill sand dune. And it flies. At Georgia's Dobbins Air Force Base one morning last week, following an overnight postponement because of last-minute technical problems, the first C-5 lifted gently off the runway for a 94-minute test. Aside from some minor difficulty with the landing gear...