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...wore instead of the accustomed black was easily explained: she had asked Pope John XXIII for the ancient privilege of Roman Catholic queens. The reason for her other departures from the past -forgoing the protocol-prescribed trek up the Noble Staircase in favor of an elevator ride to the second-floor apartment of the Pope, failing to join her husband King Baudouin, 30, for the traditional call on the Vatican Secretary of State-also became clear the very next day: the Pope personally confirmed rumors that the shy, slim queen is expecting a child...
...King's Chamber"?a Louis XVI bedroom paneled in blue-grey silk?Kennedy drove to the Elysee Palace for the first of his formal talks with De Gaulle. France's President walked stiffly outside to greet his visitor. He paused impatiently for photographers, then guided Kennedy toward his second-floor office for the work at hand. The two men settled down in armchairs behind windows overlooking a superbly manicured lawn; between the chairs was a glass table, holding French and American cigarettes. (De Gaulle neither smokes nor likes others to indulge in his office; Kennedy, who brought...
Wakened at midnight by the smell of smoke, Mary Clark Rockefeller found the stairwell of the century-old Albany Executive Mansion engulfed in flames, pounded on the door of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's adjoining bedroom, and together they crawled through the second-floor window onto a porch roof. Just as Rocky got set to leap for a clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom...
Nowhere will the game be played more openly than in the second-floor White House office of Larry O'Brien, special assistant to the President for liaison and personnel. In the office is a card file containing the background of every Senator and Congressman. Among the data are such items as a man's close political friends, college fraternity, his wife's maiden name, his economic and educational milieu-information that has proved invaluable in finding undreamed of ways to reach a man. A tough, candid operator. O'Brien has already talked over the President...
...flashing, the ambulance sped through the quiet, post-holiday streets of Georgetown to the red brick home of President-elect John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby?'' she asked the doctor apprehensively (Jackie Kennedy had lost...