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...Caroline Kennedy and her kindergarten classmates have been declared personae non gratae during future official White House welcoming ceremonies. Reason: last week, when the President greeted visiting Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella on the White House south lawn with a solemn military review and a 21-gun salute, Caroline and her playmates watched from a third-floor window, began mimicking the military commands with cries of "Attention!" "Shoulder arms!" and "Boom! Boom...
Holiday countered in December, painting a hysterical picture of a Radcliffe of lovesick exhaustion, fantasy, and wild experimentation. And in June the New York Times magazine ran some somber pictures of brunettes, outlined the social rules, and described the emancipated 'Cliffie as "Keenly enthusiastic," "down-right solemn," and "better-looking...
...with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister Eunice and with Mrs. Frederick Gushing, daughter of an old friend, Mrs. John R. Fell...
...century hymn Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Then the cardinals, patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, abbots and superiors of religious orders, representing more than 90% of the church's hierarchic leaders-some auxiliary bishops and many Iron Curtain prelates will not attend-will begin their solemn procession across Bernini's piazza toward the great Basilica of St. Peter's. Inside the church, after Pope John and the council fathers have been seated, France's red-robed Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, 78, bearded dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass in honor...
...toward anonymity," he quickly turned to a much broader subject-Susskind. "I would like very much to go into politics." he said. President? "No Jewish person can be President of the United States. A Catholic just barely made it." Senator? Yes. "I'd like to go into that solemn chamber, and make some sense...