Society: A Tiny Party on Fifth Avenue

"I feel as though I've just become a piece of public property," said Jacqueline Kennedy after her husband was elected President of the U.S. Today, 17 months after his death, she still belongs to the people like some uncrowned queen. Now that her period of public mourning is past, she has been gradually trying to resume life as a private person. She has gingerly ventured forth to the theater and an occasional discothèque, taken her children skiing and to the circus. But she is still trailed wherever she goes by the watchful...

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