Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly all of the investigators have been reporters exploring the gaps in Kennedy's account. Though a woman died, Massachusetts authorities have questioned no one who could tell them directly what happened the night of the accident...
...nine hours, that would have placed the moment of death no earlier than 12:30 a.m. Dr. Mills admitted that a judgment based on the degree of rigor mortis is "at best inexact"; there was no autopsy. Still, Mills' statement either casts doubt on Kennedy's account as to the time of the accident or, even worse for the Senator, raises anew the possibility that Mary Jo remained alive for a time after the car sank in Poucha Pond...
James Reston of the New York Times concluded that the real question "is not whether the voters of Massachusetts can live with the Senator's account of the tragedy, but whether he can." To Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden, the case was tragic "in the Shakespearean sense of a puzzlement of the will, of judgment suspended and flawed at a crucial moment...
...assumption that the rarest element on earth is time. Time cannot be stored or saved, or consumed at a rate faster than it is produced. The rich man has no more of it than the pauper-and no less. Previous economic theory, says Linder, fails to take into sufficient account that leisure time must be consumed, either by doing something or doing nothing. For a society both af fluent and leisured, and anxious to put every moment to good use, there are simply too many things to do. Overwhelmed by a burgeoning store of goods and services designed for pleasure...
...Lerner's account of the visit to the 'Snooze' is good. It should be. He served as Executive Editor of the CRIMSON during 1967-68, and is now a writer for the village voice...