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...arrival with the children by Air Force jet was heavily covered by the Secret Service, state and local police. Her limousine left Otis Air Force Base at high speed, driven by Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, whom she had pulled to her side in Dallas when the fatal shots rang out. The day was overcast, windy, chilly. Next week Jackie expects to return to Washington, supervise her move out of the White House and into a Georgetown house lent to her temporarily by Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. Later she probably will buy a house...
...warehouse. An autopsy on Kennedy's body produced one bullet that matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near the window, on the wrapping paper that was used for the "window shades," and on the carbine itself. Experts who later test-fired similar carbines agreed that a skilled man could fire such a gun three times in five seconds...
Crossed Neckties. Even before the assassination, the problem was on the minds of 3,000 Gaullist delegates who gathered in Nice during the fatal weekend in a valiant effort to create a young, forward-looking image for De Gaulle's party. The outward trappings were fondly assumed to be à l'americaine: blue-suited hostesses, party emblems, name tags for delegates, neckties imprinted with the Cross of Lorraine. After the stunning news of Kennedy's death flashed through the meeting hall, Party Secretary Jacques Baumel noted that De Gaulle now was "one of the last great captains...
...even for most patients, with common blood types, autotransfusion is the best possible source of blood. By far the safest thing for anybody to have flowing through his arteries and veins is his own blood. With it, there can be no mismatching, which carries a risk of serious or fatal illness. When an operation can be scheduled a few days to three weeks in advance, and the patient is not severely anemic or debilitated, he can usually serve as his own donor...
...painfully slow dimming of lights with which he ends his acts simply does not come off. And his handling of the final scene is inexcusable. Ibsen leaves his audience with the horror of Oswald's insanity and Mrs. Alving's terrible indecision whether or not to give him the fatal dose of morphine he requested. Austin gives her time to reach positive decision drawing attention away from Oswald and letting her escape her dilemma...