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J.F.K. did shake hands, but he saw to it that no cameraman recorded the event. Even the customary rocking-chair photos were ruled out in favor of a stiff shot of Kennedy and Tito facing each other across a conference table. Everything was done according to the book, from the traditional 21-gun salute to a luncheon for 59 guests at the White House-but without notable enthusiasm. After lunch, Tito and Jovanka took in Washington's sights, but the route of their ten-limousine motorcade was kept so secret-to avoid demonstrations-that puzzled pedestrians along...
Since the ladies feel their "roots" are in the house, they are rather reluctant to yield and put up stiff resistance. It is never clear whether or not they win, but the "Grandiose Finale" assures us that right and justice have, indeed, prevailed...
...Blackman has probably not worried too much about the possibility of losing to Holy Cross today. The Crusaders are not nearly as robust as the crew that overcame stiff Harvard resistance last year. Graduation and a truly tragic mauling by Syracuse have thinned the ranks...
...Stiff and stony-faced, der Alte wasted no time on Wehmut, the sweet melancholy that Germans usually lavish on such occasions. Instead, he launched into a withering attack on President Kennedy's proposal to sell wheat to Russia, calling it a fickle expedient that was inconsistent with Washington's demand last winter that West German in dustrialists cancel a deal to sell pipeline to Moscow. Demanding that the entire subject of East-West trade be reviewed by the NATO Council, Adenauer insisted that the wheat would ultimately help the Russians fight the West, and he echoed a crack...
...only interesting contest of the meet will be sophomore ace Walt Hewlett versus the clock. Hewlett lost his first race of the season last week to Cornell's Jim Byard, but he will probably be out to redeem himself in New York today. He will also not face any stiff competition until he meets Byard again in the Heps; none of the other Ivy schools have runners of equivalent caliber...