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...vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking her when she was going to trim John-John's long hair. "What could I say?" she writes. "I couldn't say that Mrs. Kennedy wanted it long." She must have let on, though, because the President winked and said, "I know. If anyone asks you, it was an order from the President...
...most of his effort would be directed toward shoring up the home front. To trim down the government's $180 million budget deficit, he promised a reduction in spending and a drive to reduce graft in the revenue service so that the Treasury would collect at least some of the estimated $350 million a year in duties that it now loses to smugglers. Burying the bombas, Marcos called on politicians to forget the recent bitter past and cooperate for the tasks ahead. "My intention," he declared, "is to harness all available talents and perhaps to appoint to the Cabinet...
...Nairobi. Soon after uhuru, the government of Jomo Kenyatta bought up thousands of acres in the white highlands-at fair prices but with no refusal-and turned the land over to land-hungry Kikuyu families as part of Kenyatta's political debt to the tribe. Down came the trim hedges and the lofty stands of trees that the English farmers had so cherished; up went ramshackle huts and fields of maize...
...only thing that the trim, 155-lb. bachelor enjoys more than his job is his bayside home in East Hampton, L.I. There, decked out in an ankle-length apron, he putters happily around his professionally equipped kitchen. A precise and sparing eater himself, Claiborne hates and rarely uses marzipan, marshmallows or iceberg lettuce, serves rigidly small portions to a constant stream of guests who range from curious neighbors to the giants of the profession...
...pressures of office ever do get to him, Keppel confides it only to his trim, sprightly wife Deedie (for Edith). The two live alone in a rented brick house in Georgetown; one daughter, Tracy, 23, who attended Bennington College and Boston University-but never graduated-is married, and a second, Susan, 18, is a freshman at Centenary College in Shreveport, La. "I love hearing about Frank's job," Deedie says. "I'm about the only person he can blow his stack with. Frank is just like his father. He leaves the cellar flooded and flies off to South...