Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They added that in another building, at 17 Kempton St., the realtor continually failed to repair a defective boiler, and one woman was without heat for three months this fall...
...signed on to Robert Kennedy's staff in 1967 to answer mail from children-a task she performed with engaging touches of whimsy. Age 23, barely five feet tall, with red hair, she enjoyed playing with the Kennedy brood at Hickory Hill. Like the other girls from the "boiler room," she was shattered by Bobby Kennedy's death, seemed to snap out of her melancholy only considerably later, after she began working for the Kennedy family foundation for mentally retarded children...
Dinis plans to call about 20 witnesses, including the five "boiler room" girls who were present at the cookout in a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick (see THE NATION). The attorney for the girls wants Judge Boyle to narrow the scope of the inquiry. Without any restrictions on the questioning, he contends, the girls could be quizzed on their entire lives...
...adoration of the Kennedys. Mary Jo soon became respected for thoroughness, industriousness and discretion. "She was the one who stayed up all night and typed Bobby's speech on Viet Nam" in February 1966, Ethel Kennedy recalled last week. During the 1968 campaign, Mary Jo worked in the "Boiler Room" of R.F.K.'s Washington campaign headquarters, where the running count of convention delegates was kept. Mary Jo joined three other young women in renting a small Georgetown house on Olive Street. Though bright, blonde and at least conventionally pretty, she had little social life outside of the office. Michael Dinunzio...
Mary Jo had been looking forward to the weekend on Martha's Vineyard. It meant seeing her old friends from the Boiler Room, perhaps playing some nostalgic games of touch football and having yet another chance to root for a Kennedy. She had never worked directly for Ted Kennedy. In fact, some of her friends remember that, in comparison with his brothers, Ted Kennedy was not an idol to Mary Jo Kopechne...