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...Kennedys, plus such 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...
...there Mexico's "independent" foreign policy made sightseeing a drag. López Mateos had no time for Checkpoint Charlie, the Wall, or the memorial to 18-year-old Peter Fechter, killed last year by Red Grepos. Instead, Mexico's leader zoomed off to lay a wreath on the statue of the German naturalist Baron Alexander von Humboldt-onetime resident of Mexico and safely dead since...
Photo Finish. Peter Ustinov, writer, director and star of this comedy, remains mute for the first five minutes of it. Propped up by a pillow, he half-sits, half-lies in bed, a snow wreath of great age framing his petulantly mischievous features. He looks like a cross between a grumpy polar bear and a tipsy Greek philosopher. As his equally ancient wife ("a nagger's nagger") frets, scolds, and pokes at him, Ustinov's countenance becomes a weather map of changing frustrations. His eyes ski off at rakish tangents. His jaw chomps erratically over what could...
...twelve-member Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee turned down six suggestions from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The committee had no esthetic objection to a stamp that would show a green wreath hanging from a white suburban door, but the block of white would foul up every color-sensitized Mark II Facer-Canceler in the country. Nor did the committee have artistic reservations about a cluster of pajamaed tots ogling their loot spread out under a Christmas tree; the design simply had too much detail for reproduction. Finally a Post Office illustrator offered the winning design-a wreath adorned...
...point in the program an admiral thoughtfully reassured the spacemen's wives that if by any chance the parachute failed and the capsule sank, an explosive signal device would automatically detonate, thus alerting recovery forces. "Oh?" said Jo. "So they'll know where to drop the wreath...