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...have been eager to preserve the pastoral traditions and manored customs of another era. The stately homes are well kept, and some of the nation's finest horses are pastured behind dazzling whitewashed fences. Except for its new French chef, the Red Fox Tavern in the hamlet of Middleburg (pop. 663) is much as it was when Mosby's Rangers made it a regular stop during the War Between the States. And the young George Washington would respond to the thunder of hoofbeats, echoing through the Blue Ridge foothills, just as he did in his own fox-hunting...
...with motorcades of the Sunday curious beginning to appear on winter's traces, with newsmen swarming around the Red Fox bar, and with Secret Service men staked out disconcertingly in the woodlands and the greening fields, there was a certain uneasiness in the neighborhood. From Middleburg last week, Mrs. Robert Phillips, a Glen Ora neighbor, reported for TIME on the situation in the Hunt Country...
...chosen their region for their fox hunting and for their own privacy. The area reeks with Phippses, Ise-lins, Du Fonts, Mellons and Warburgs and others of well-known wealth (those of not-so-well-known wealth, but trying hard to be known, have also chosen the area around Middleburg). They were afraid that hill-topping (following hounds in a car or on foot) would become a national sport, like baseball. Hilltoppers can cut off a fox, cut off scent and get annoyingly in the way. So far, there has been no such disturbance on Mrs. Kennedy...
President Kennedy was loafing through the weekend at his Middleburg, Va., estate when he got a call from his press secretary telling him that Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba was officially dead. It was, the President knew, an omen of worse to come. He issued a moderate statement expressing his "shock" at the news, then waited edgily for the predictable Russian response...
...week's end the Kennedys deserted Washington and flew out by helicopter for their first visit to Glen Ora, their rented estate in Middleburg. Va. The press was told that there would be no news, no tours of the house, precious few beds in the nearby Red Fox Tavern for stubborn reporters. There were no weekend visitors. One morning Jackie went riding on her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, over bridle paths that had been specially cleared of snow. For the Kennedys, Glen Ora visits will be one more front in the fight for privacy and informality...