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...midday, Nikita Khrushchev will be Kennedy's luncheon guest, and the afternoon talk between the two leaders of East and West is expected to break up by 6 p.m. to allow them time to dress for the gala state dinner to be held in the imperial grandeur of Schönbrunn Palace. On Sunday morning, the President is scheduled to attend Mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral, then drive to the Soviet embassy for five hours of talk-broken by lunch-with Khrushchev. This will give Jackie time to see the famous Lippizaner horses at the Spanish Riding...
...resort town of Evian-les-Bains, on the French side of the Lake of Geneva, seemed to be rushing the season last week. Colored lights were strung from public buildings, and some 13,000 tulips, pansies and violets were hastily planted in the town's public gardens. The gala preparations were meant not for sun-loving tourists, but for two delegations-one French, the other from the Algerian rebels-that are gathering in Evian in the hope of hammering out a peaceful settlement of the six-year-old Algerian...
Even aging Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga...
Next on the list was Frankie Sinatra's Hollywood-style Gala at the cavernous National Armory. Happily for the Democratic Party coffers, the tickets had been sold long before the snowstorm-and just as Sinatra had predicted, the show made a mint: nearly $1,400,000 (single seats, $100; boxes, $10,000). Unhappily for the showfolk, however, only two-thirds of the ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine...
Father Joe Kennedy's big bash at a downtown restaurant followed Frankie's Gala. An exhausted Jackie Kennedy went home, but all the rest of the clan, surrounded by the Hollywood troupe and scores of Kennedy friends, crowded in for a sedate but delightful few hours of champagne, caviar, hors d'oeuvres and supper. It was 4 a.m. before Jack Kennedy slipped into...