Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otherwise, unless he has to appear at a political function, he almost always stays home with Son Patrick, 12. Daughter Kara, 19, is a sophomore at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.; Son Edward Jr., 18, is a freshman at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn...
Joan Kennedy is a woman whose warmth and charm would have shone in almost any field of life. She has taught in public school and performed a Mozart piano concerto and read Peter and the Wolf with the Boston Symphony. Says one Bostonian who knows her well: "There isn't anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good." But public life has not been kind to Joan Kennedy. Its wounds can be seen in the puffy eyes, the exaggerated makeup, the tales of alcoholism. Today she is a sadly vulnerable soul and an unknown factor...
Kopechne's death and Kennedy's actions that night have been the subject of a police inquiry, court inquest, at least five books and countless investigations by magazine, newspaper and TV reporters. Almost everything in Kennedy's description of the night's events has been challenged; even the judge who presided at the inquest was skeptical. But Kennedy has steadfastly stuck by his account, which he first related on TV a week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that...
...Carter summoned the Democratic faithful to a Washington dinner that marked the unofficial launching of his reelection campaign. Those invited were told that their attendance would be considered an endorsement of the President for renomination. Almost 500 party powers showed up, including 109 Congressmen, a dozen Senators and a pride of Governors (Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Julian Carroll of Kentucky, Bruce King of New Mexico) and mayors (Edward Koch of New York City, Thomas Bradley of Los Angeles, Coleman Young of Detroit, Maynard Jackson of Atlanta). The Governors and mayors know quite well that Carter has at least another...
...election campaign has raised almost $3 million, but contrived to spend most of it. One bright spot for Carter: the surprising number of donations that are rolling in from prominent Republicans, who apparently will do just about anything to stop Kennedy...