National Affairs: Meanwhile, in Hyannisport

The Kennedy enclave at Hyannisport, Mass.—usually swarming with dogs, children, bicycles and softball teams—was strangely silent last week. The bright green lawns stretching from Jack's and Brother Bob's homes to Father Joe's oceanfront manse were deserted.

For Jackie Kennedy, left behind on Jack's order because she is expecting her second child in November, things were just about the way she liked them best.

She and Caroline, 2^, stayed near home, swam and sunned themselves. She got her first real news of Jack's progress when an excited painter rushed in to tell her that Jack had won Pennsylvania's big block of votes in caucus.

During...

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