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...personal friends as Actor David Niven and Florida Senator George Smathers, cruised the Potomac on the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. This party, planned by Jackie, lasted nearly six hours, was enlivened by a thunder and lightning storm. Next day Kennedy placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, then helicoptered with Jackie to Maryland's Camp David for a mountain rest...
...suddenly emerged all dressed up for the official May Day march-past through Red Square. He even sported a blue beret, which seemed increasingly confining as, for five solid hours, under a warm spring sun, he stood at Khrushchev's side on the rampart over Lenin's tomb. It went on and on; 250,000 athletes, workers and schoolchildren paraded by. Only during the ten-minute parade of familiar military hardware, featuring medium-range (500 to 700 miles) missiles of the type Moscow had tried to put in Cuba, did Fidel look interested. U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler...
...mountaineers and their Sherpas pushed on, through the high valley of the Western Cwm (rhymes with tomb), across the snow-mantled face of Mount Lhotse to the South Col-the 25,850-ft.-high saddle that joins Lhotse to Everest. Goggles shielded their eyes from snow blindness; they learned to sleep with oxygen masks on. Now the going was savage. By last week, when they pitched camp No. 6 at 27,800 ft.-just 228 ft. below Everest's cloud-swathed summit-only four men were climbing...
Spiv & Tart. Mother rules their lives in death as she did in life. They build a sort of playhouse in her tomb in the backyard lily patch and call it The Tabernacle, and slowly evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead. Hymns and the promulgation of rules and cruel punishments comprise its simple liturgy. The fact is-not that facts, as such, mean much to them-that mother was a local scandal as a woman of loose morals (which is partly why the adults accepted the kids' story that mother was "sick...
...last (he left no heir) Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, who in 1942 published his "Social Insurance and Allied Services" report, which called for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death benefits for every British citizen, and became the framework for Britain's present-day "womb to tomb" coverage; in London...