Word: boston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldest ship in the U.S. Navy is not the destroyer tender Dixie, a mere 40 years old [Oct. 15]. The U.S.S. Constitution, permanently docked here in Boston, is 182 years old and still a commissioned ship. Old Ironsides is to this day staffed and maintained by the Navy...
Suddenly, Ted Kennedy strides into the room, his flushed face beaming and his right hand reaching out. "Ooh," squeals an elegantly coiffed woman. "He shook my hand. Did you see that? This hand right here." Kennedy sweeps through the room, bellowing in his Boston accent, "Hi, how are you, good to see you." "Go, Teddy!" someone yells. Kennedy gives a short pep talk for the object of the reception, former Congressman William Green. "I want to introduce the man who will be the next mayor of Philadelphia," Kennedy says. Green takes the microphone and shouts: "I want to thank...
...roughly $700,000 a year, the main source of which is a blind trust. (Staffers have had to argue with him for even small raises.) But where his family is concerned he spends freely: $500,000 for his McLean house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves...
Kennedy supporters started mobilizing those forces only hours after helping to dedicate the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston on Oct. 20. They had held off until then because the Senator did not want the ceremony to be turned into a political event?a grace note that somehow was not communicated to his nephew Joe, who made a fiery attack on the Carter Administration's energy and economic policies. That day, at a strategy session, Kennedy's top advisers made plans for a money-raising blitz that will qualify him for federal campaign matching funds within a week...
...Chappaquiddick, a reputation for womanizing and the problems of separation from his troubled wife. But his biggest liability may be his image of being a big-spending liberal at a time when many public opinion analysts believe Americans have become more conservative. Opponents attach considerable significance to a Boston...