Word: curragh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noon, he is aboard his 55-ft. sloop Curragh, which he treats the way a teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...
After lunch on Curragh, Kennedy frequently races off Hyannis Port aboard his 25-ft. Wianno Senior Victura. Wearing shorts and a T shirt, he jovially bellows orders at his crew, usually Nephew Joe and Son Patrick. Kennedy likes to win and often does. After the races, there is more fishing, more swimming, more tennis (in Washington, he plays doubles two or three times a week; his back does not permit singles). Opponents describe him as having a solid serve and playing aggressively...
...Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said a still-incredulous Randi: "I kept saying to myself, yeah, sure, you're getting rescued by Ted Kennedy." A small motorboat arrived on the scene and ferried the five hapless boaters to Kennedy's sloop Curragh, where Ted, Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy and several of his nephews and nieces greeted them with hot soup and warm clothes. Said an impressed David Lamkin, "Well, Mr. Kennedy, how often do you rescue people from the ocean?" Replied Ted, "Not very often." Later in the day Randi...
...deductions included a hefty $20,434 in mortgage interest payments and $8,180 in real estate taxes for his home in McLean, Va., $3,171 for his house in Hyannis Port, Mass., plus $3,890 interest on a chattel mortgage for his 50-ft. sloop Curragh. He also claimed losses of $3,938 from two rental properties in Boston and Madison, Wis. Though the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, of which the Senator is president, has given an average $2 million a year to charity since 1946, Kennedy made personal charitable contributions in 1973 of $4,678-objects unspecified...
...threatened to kill the hospital attendants present, detectives closed in shooting. In the pandemonium, two I.R.A. men were wounded and four others were caught later, but the clumsy rescue attempt had been too close for comfort. The following day, MacStiofáin was bundled off by helicopter to the Curragh, the Irish army's main barracks 30 miles outside Dublin...