People: Oct. 20, 1967

With its usual combination of chic and cheek, Women's Wear Daily floated the most elegant rumor of the year —that Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, would announce her engagement to Britain's David Ormsby Gore, Lord Harlech, 49, former British Ambassador to the U.S., a 13-year friend of the Kennedys, and a widower since his wife was killed in a car crash last May. His lordship, in Washington at the beginning of a lecture tour, put down the report as having "no foundation," and Jackie denied it through her secretary. At week's end Lord Harlech, house-guesting at Robert Kennedy's Virginia estate, admitted that he...

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