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Code Name Venus. Toward this end, the White House has more and more resembled a strategic command post as the prenuptial months shortened into weeks, the weeks into days. Mother and bride pored endlessly over lists of names before culling a roster of 700-plus guests. Myriad flowers were planted and nurtured, a raft of invitations elegantly addressed by three staff calligraphers. Dresses had to be selected for the bride and her attendants, a trousseau acquired, security arrangements settled and-after a parade of cardboard-and-frosting mock-up models worthy of changeover season in Detroit-the wedding cake approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...that set her apart are a deep and striking blue. Endowed as well with lustrous black hair, flashing smile and a milkmaid's complexion, Luci is undeniably comely-more so than most of her photographs indicate. Not entirely by accident, the Secret Service code name for her is Venus; Lynda, more studious and serious, is Velvet; Lady Bird is Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...Luci, the transition from White House Venus to Heritage Way housewife may not be as wrenching as it sounds. Despite her well-cushioned upbringing, life with Father has not always been easy, and she seems genuinely eager for a more relaxed and simple life. "I know there will be times of trouble," she says, "as there have been before, and I can't go running home to Mother and Daddy. But I feel we'll be able to solve the problems. We can take the bad with the good." Lady Bird's "philosopher" adds with hill-country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Some day this annual event will be broadcast from Venus with a bunch of Martians presiding, but in the meantime viewers will have to be content with Miami Beach, Pat Boone, June Lockhart and Jack Linkletter. In color for the first time, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 15, 1966 | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Genius | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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