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...chief reason why Kennedy withdrew. There remain many unanswered questions about the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Kennedy's car; Watergate revived them as a challenge to the Senator's moral fitness and the evenhandedness of the press. The problem was expressed in nasty bumper stickers: NOBODY DROWNED AT WATERGATE. The fact that several publications had renewed investigations into Chappaquiddick may well have affected the tuning of Kennedy's announcement (see story page...
Most of the people at the Gaslight are regulars who've come to have a good time and do some serious drinking. In fact, sometimes it gets too serious. Several weeks ago, a small time brawl broke out when someone accidently nudged someone else with a bumper pool cue stick. It's not at all unusual to see several rowdies ejected or to find someone with a bloodied face on the sidewalk outside...
...number of packs smoked. The major factors pushing up the COHb levels in both nonsmokers and smokers were the type of work, where it was performed, and the CO in the ambient air. Even nonsmoking taxi drivers in New York City had levels as high as 5.8% after a bumper-to-bumper day; workers at Chicago's O'Hare field registered 2.5%, at New York's Kennedy Airport 2.1%. Other CO-laden occupations: printing, welding and processing metals, chemicals, stone or glass...
...seems likelier for the opposite to take place, however. With Ford as a Mr. Clean in the White House, Republicans have no reason to allow Chappaquiddick to fade into obscurity-"Nobody drowned in Watergate," says one nasty bumper sticker. Even many Democrats question the wisdom of electing another morally tarnished candidate to the presidency just after getting rid of Nixon. As Reporter Robert Sherrill recently showed in a devastating New York Times Magazine article, there remain many unanswered questions about the Chappaquiddick incident, including Kennedy's public explanation of it, that are bound to haunt a Kennedy...
Nothing has hurt the U.S. consumer more in the past three years than wildfire food-price inflation. Last week what little hope remained that it would be eased by bumper crops this year vanished. On the fourth day of the Ford Administration, the Department of Agriculture released new crop forecasts that seemed to confirm the worst fears about the effects of the blistering drought that has gripped the Midwestern Farm Belt this summer after heavy spring rains spoiled the planting season (TIME...