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Three times during the week, Jackie fled to Glen Ora in the Virginia countryside, where she rode to the hounds on a brown and white horse named Rufus. The hounds found no foxes, managed only to scatter a few deer. Then, turning from riding breeches to a white satin sheath skirt, a black overblouse and diamond earrings, Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since...
There were discomforts and difficulties aplenty for Westerners to practice their serenity on. A hotel shortage forced many of them to share their rooms with one or more strangers and to scatter about the city in embassies and dubious hostels, from which it was often a laborious journey by arthritic jitney to the sleekly modern Vigyan Bhavan (Hall of Science), built for the UNESCO conference...
...concern. Like churchgoing and weekend barbecues, the Sunday newspaper is a national institution. It is big, boisterous and, for the most part, glowing with financial health. But for all that, it presents a growing problem not only for the men who put it together but for the readers who scatter it across the living-room floor each Sunday. How is the Sunday newspaper changing-and why? What do its editors want it to be? Is it aimed at a readership that no longer exists...
...Based on a three-year-old Rand Corp. estimate of the radiation that worldwide fallout from a relatively small (20,000-megaton) attack would scatter on fields, woods and other parts of "the natural environment...
...High Tests. If the Russians were trying to hide their tests, they would have held them underground. Underground explosions send no ordinary radio signals or barometric waves. They are invisible to radar, and they scatter no telltale fallout. But they do create powerful earth waves that travel in the earth's crust and deep through its interior. A powerful underground explosion registers on seismographs all over the world, and smaller explosions are detected at shorter distances. The fault of this system is that weak bomb waves are hard to distinguish from the waves of natural earthquakes. Some experts claim...