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Plucky Myopic. Reckless physical bravery is often expected of Kennedy guests, and the quickest road to acceptance for an outsider is some act of dazzling physical courage. As many as three "draggers" hang onto life preservers towed behind the Kennedy sloop Victura. The stiffer the breeze, the better the sport-since the dragger thus swallows more waves and finds it harder not to drown...
...Convention, she had a stockade fence erected around her Hyannisport home, as much to fence out the neighboring Kennedy small fry and animals as the prying public. The proof that she had won her intramural war of independence was evident on a recent cruise aboard Jack's sloop Victura, when Jack and the Radziwills sat with her in the stern, while she passed around oeufs en gelee and vin rosé from her hamper, and her Kennedy in-laws sprawled in the bow and lunched on peanut butter sandwiches and Cokes from a picnic basket...