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...Director Sargent Shriver, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative, promptly assigned his own Emergence of Nations. Equally promptly. Bobby's wife Ethel exercised a student's traditional right to complain. "Terrible books to read," she sighed. "Very...
ETHEL KENNEDY McLean...
...JESSE McLean...
Manors & Estates. Outdoor living is also stressed at Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's 15-room, seven-acre estate, Hickory Hill, in McLean. Va. Once the Civil War headquarters of Union General George McClellan. Hickory Hill has two swimming pools, a tennis court, pony stables and, says one visitor, "the only treehouse in the world that looks as if it were designed by an architect." A major attraction of the house is the huge kitchen, which might have been lifted out of the pages of Gone With the Wind; it has no chrome or eye-level ovens...
Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...