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...members are younger these A days, usually in their 20s and early 30s. Many of them sport hippie-style hair, Beards or drooping mustaches. Some of their leaders try to project an up-to-date image, sounding reasonable on TV talk shows and often wearing sober business suits. But at their rallies in the dark of night, today's self-styled knights of the Ku Klux Klan still wear white robes, burn crosses and spout the racist rhetoric of their grandfathers in the Klan's hey day of the 1920s, when klaverns across the country claimed millions...
...facts. "I've had an exceptionally lucky life," Auden said some four years before his death in 1973, and indeed it seemed to be. He enjoyed those rarest experiences in English literature, a happy childhood and a pleasant public school education. At Oxford in the '20s he made some impressive lifelong friends and acolytes: Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis. A Cambridge graduate named Christopher Isherwood also joined what became known as the Auden Gang. The publication of Poems (1930) made Auden famous...
...Kennedy's staff is regarded in the Senate as first rate. He has about 100 people working for him, which makes his staff about the same size as those of other committee chairmen. Generally in their 20s and 30s, his aides are exceedingly loyal and enthusiastic, and heartily disliked by colleagues on Capitol Hill for always putting Kennedy's interests first. Unlike most Senate staffs, Kennedy has no office manager. The senior men report directly to Kennedy. The most important aide is ten-year veteran Carey Parker, 44, Kennedy's balding, warmly humorous chief legislative assistant. The other top aides...
...partygoers were Kennedy, five other men and six women. The women were all in their 20s and veterans of Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. After several hours over drinks, snacks and charcoal-broiled steaks, Kennedy and Kopechne, 28, left in his black Oldsmobile sedan. He claimed later that they intended to return to their separate hotels in Edgartown for the night. However, he headed in the opposite direction, toward a deserted beach. He drove down a bumpy dirt road and plunged off narrow, humpbacked Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy managed to extricate himself from the car, which...
...added treat is the torrid trumpet work of Jabbo Smith. He has been playing since the '20s. Now over 70, he can garnish a mike with some slyly nimble scat singing, and his ''chops'' are still tops...