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Brains & Backbone. Next morning, after only two hours of sleep, Ayub showed up at 9 a.m. to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then checked in at the White House for a long, serious talk with the President. This time, he came bearing gifts: two Pakistani rugs for the President, a painting for Mrs. Kennedy, a doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon...
Afterwards, deliberation once more gave way to ceremony. Kennedy received the Paris diplomatic corps, then De Gaulle escorted Kennedy on the day's second motorcade?to the Arc de Triomphe, where the President laid a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier...
...last day of his Vienna visit, Jack Kennedy rose early to bone up for the morning's session with Khrushchev, then escorted Jackie to 9 o'clock Mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral. About the same time, Khrushchev solemnly laid a wreath of red carnations at the base of the Russian war memorial in Schwarzenbergplatz, stood with bared head bowed for nearly five minutes before the marble column. Then, just after 10, Kennedy and his advisers drove up to the grey, stuccoed Soviet embassy for a lunch and final matching of wits on nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin. "I greet...
...NASA will say who is responsible for Commander Shepard's D.S.M., but that perhaps is a blessing. One side of the medal shows a planet and satellite-a motif that any schoolboy might have thought up. On the other side is the inevitable laurel wreath. As for the lettering, Designer Henry Hart of the Smithsonian Institution has just one word: "Atrocious...
...only plane around. Just after takeoff, the engine quit. The plane crashed into a tree, and Corrigan was killed. Last week, when his body was brought back to Luangprabang, more than 1,000 Laotians stood silently by. Buddhist monks said prayers over the coffin, and the governor laid a wreath, saying: "From his Laotian friends, their eternal regrets...