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...Nice." Jackie Kennedy also made a gracious gesture toward the nation's newshens, inviting 200 of them for lunch. The presswomen, led in through the southwest gate, which is usually reserved for state occasions, drove past daughter Caroline's jungle-gym swings and duck pond. Jackie greeted each guest with a warm friendliness. Said she to Eugenia Sheppard, the New York Herald Tribune Women's Feature Editor: "How nice to meet you, at last!" Eugenia melted, could barely wait to rush off to her typewriter. "It was exactly the female kind of party that we took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Exposure | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

California and Illinois. I need 80% in those states or I'm a dead duck." There was. as predicted, a good deal of nastiness in the campaign that brought Meyer to the presidency. One hundred leaders issued a manifesto raising the "religious issue." Could a member of the Jewish faith be objective to Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HOW THE U.S. GOT ITS FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...tiger was uncomfortable. Queen Elizabeth refused to handle a gun, confined her shooting to a 16-mm. movie camera. The honor of being the "invited gun" was to have gone to Prince Philip, who during the royal family's tour of India and Pakistan has potted hundreds of duck and partridge, plus one sizable tiger, has been dubbed "the grim reaper" by the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Hapless Hunting | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...ever be very dangerous. Moreover, Johansson still has not corrected the basic mistake of dropping his right hand, which last time left him open to Patterson's left hook. But the way Ingo explains his defeat, he tried to lean back from Patterson's left instead of ducking under it. This time, he says, he will duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Round Three | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...terrified African woman and her children escaped in a hail of stones. An African man was cornered in a shed across the road and shot to death. Another was chased to the roof of a warehouse, ran wildly along the ridge as whites took potshots at him like a duck in a shooting gallery. Ten Africans died in the rioting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola: Land of Brotherly Love | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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