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...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...
Little Diamond Things. Gloria rarely takes any designer's ideas without insisting on changes. She will have Balenciaga take off a button here and there, change the collar, or even have him run up something out of a skirt from this dress, the neckline from that, the sleeves from another...
...drawing up regulations for investment companies. But in much of Western Europe, outdated government policies still hamper the funds' progress. In France, the government has yet to put into effect a law authorizing French open-end funds-but allows foreign-based funds to be sold. In Italy, to skirt laws against mutual fund operations, the sponsors of Interitalia, a fund specializing entirely in Italian shares, decided to incorporate in Luxembourg...
Kennedy believed right, and Prado proved it almost every time he spoke. Unlike most of his fellow Latin American chief executives, who skirt the subject of Castro-Communist penetration of the hemisphere, Prado made no attempt to camouflage his feelings. He told a joint session of Congress that "Peru stands with you in the struggle against Communism in the world and in our hemisphere-whatever measures you may be required to take to combat it, you will find my country at your side...
...Blue Suitcase. In 1953, at a party in Manchester, Vt., Salinger met Claire Douglas, an English-born Radcliffe student. She was unimpeachably rightlooking, extraordinarily pretty, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt. Claire was fascinated by the intense, 34-year-old author, and visited him several times in Cornish. She soothed her family with a story that showed close attention to the master's style: Salinger lived, she said, with his mother, sister, 15 Buddhist monks, and a yogi who stood on his head. The girl discovered mysticism. "She was hung on the Jesus Prayer." recalls her brother Gavin...