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...without even having a chart of the waters or the know-how to read it if they did. The Coast Guard crew at Stepping Stones Light Station off New York City, where Long Island Sound meets the East River, spends a large part of the summer frantically waving a towel to warn sloppy skippers off the nearby reef. The shoal is covered with only a few inches of water, but extends for more than half a mile of deceptively open water. And a great many latter-day skippers operate on the theory that what...
...weekend Christine had met Jack Profumo for the first time. It was at Cliveden, and Christine, who was visiting Ward at his cottage on the grounds, was stealing a nude moonlight swim in Astor's pool. Suddenly Bill Astor appeared with some guests, including Profumo. Frantically clutching a towel around her dripping self, Christine was introduced to both Jack and his wife, Valerie Hobson. "She was very charming," said Christine, "but seemed wary of me." Next day, Christine brought Ivanov out to Cliveden, and the Russian and Profumo held a swimming race, which Jack only won by cheating. "That...
President Kennedy last week tossed in the towel on tax reform in 1963. Then, too late, he tried to retrieve...
Last week the President threw in the towel. Just before the steering committee was to meet. Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey got a call from White House Aide Larry O'Brien. The fight had been called off, O'Brien said. Humphrey and other Senate liberals went ahead anyway, and lost in the steering committee by a vote...
Shattered. How long New York's news drought would endure depended on the staying powers of the opposing sides. At the Journal-American, Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford...