Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, at week's end, Senator Kennedy did break his silence. Through his lawyers, Kennedy withdrew his opposition to the misdemeanor proceedings against him, waiving a hearing scheduled for this week. He then pleaded guilty at Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. That night Kennedy went on all-network TV to tell his story of what happened before and after the accident and to make an artfully emotional appeal for the guidance of the Massachusetts electorate as to whether he should resign from the Senate...
Madame Carmirelli attacked the first movement of the sonata at break-neck speed, despite the fact tat in Bach's time, both tempo and dynamics were much less varied than they have been since. Then, the slow movements and thew allegros more closely resembed each other in speed. In dynamics, Bach conceived of his works as built of solid, steady blocks of sound. Madame Carmirelli constantly shifted from pianist to forte and from slow to fast. It is true Bach wrote the sonatas as little "soul-states" as Schweitzer says, but he writes with polyphone rather than her extremes...
...submerged car was spotted eight hours later by two boys who were looking for a place to fish. The mother of one of the boys called Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena. After trying unsuccessfully to break into the car, Arena summoned the fire department's scuba-diver team, which managed to extricate Miss Kopechne's body. Meanwhile, Arena traced the car's license plates to Kennedy. At approximately 8:30 a.m., the Senator showed up at police headquarters accompanied by counsel, former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Paul Markham, and Ted's cousin Joseph Gargan...
...subversion, he has contended that the Justice Department should have far greater control than it now has to conduct wiretaps and plant electronic bugs (see THE LAW). To combat the narcotics traffic, he urged adoption last week of a national "no-knock" law that would empower federal agents to break into a suspect's house, unannounced and unidentified, so that the occupants would not have time to destroy evidence...
...disproved that. But it may have proved something. Midway through the week, the labyrinth had to be shut down for repairs. Now Gallery Director Carl Day, who built the maze with some of his students, understands why society is full of DON'T TOUCH signs. "People sure do break things," he said. "This experience has taught me what a bull the human being really...