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...befits her highly independent character. Aboard the sluggish presidential yacht Sequoia, which can do only nine knots-and whose crew made the colossal gaffe of flying the Union Jack upside down-she asked to transfer to a 60-m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied the relaxed Armstrong: "The difference between eternity and life is about one one-hundredth of an inch of rubber...
...would most likely have run for it. His experience as a high school sprinter and halfback was all he needed to outdistance an ordinary flatfoot. "We'll see," said Judge Everett Dudley. Acting as starter himself, the judge presided over a 50-yard race between Glenn and Vernon James, the officer who had made the arrest. Glenn won the contest-and acquittal. Verdict: not guilty...
...nations together. As the official guests of Tricia Nixon and David and Julie Eisenhower, the royal pair will be treated to a barbecue and swimming at Camp David, a baseball game at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, a floating lunch down the Potomac, and sightseeing at Mount Vernon and a wildlife research center in Laurel, Md. The highlight will be a dinner-dance on the south lawn of the White House with 700 guests, mostly young, and two rock bands...
Whatever their rank or race, all share a common demand: better police protection. In fact, they are slowly getting it ?thanks mainly to the tireless efforts of Jerry Vernon Wilson...
...England town meeting "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw." To a degree, the town meeting represents an older communal spirit not unlike that of hippie settlements. Now the technology that the communards seek to escape is beginning to close in on towns like Mount Vernon. Until a couple of years ago, Mount Vernon was served by crank telephones and calls routed by two elderly operators who knew everyone in town. One townsman recalls: "They knew where everybody was and used to transfer calls if you were visiting somebody. Now we just have this dial stuff that...