Those who felt funny about black cats, spilled salt and hooting owls would have departed in a hurry. To honor John Glenn, who sailed through space in Mercury capsule No. 13, thirteen U.S. Senators gathered at 10:13 a.m. on Capitol Hill to give the ebullient astronaut a gold watch, all of whose numerals read 13 o'clock. Smashing a mirror to open the meeting, Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen tried to hex Glenn: "If you'll talk 13 seconds, we'll love you. If you talk 13 minutes, we'll wonder how you ever got in orbit. If you talk 13 hours, we'll be in orbit." Replied Glenn, with a double whammy: "I thought you were going to say that if I talked 13 hours I'd be in good company."
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Has success spoiled Caroline Kennedy? Not at all, her grandmother thinks. "I don't think she's spoiled," said Rose Kennedy. "She's too young to realize all these luxuries. She probably thinks it's natural for children to go off in their own airplanes. But she is with her cousins, and some of them dance and swim better than she. They do not allow her to take special precedence. Little children accept things.''
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Radiant and wiggly in a silk dress and smiling sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever.
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Freewheeling through Europe for a month, Automaker Henry Ford II's pert post-deb daughters Charlotte, 21, and Anne, 19, got to London in time for a coming-out party, then went on to the French Riviera to sail, sun and waterski. Was their first solo trip abroad fun? Everything except those photographers who insisted on snapping the girls getting into a Renault, of all things. "They told us to do it," said Anne, but then she added happily: "We've had a fabulous, wonderful, exciting time. We've been doing just what we wanted to do." Pressed to elaborate, Anne thought and thought some more. "Stop hitting me, Charlotte," she said.
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