Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most critical judgments of Kennedy's behavior in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne came from the nation's editorial writers and columnists. Many editorialists agreed with the Tulsa World, which wrote: "We can honestly feel for the Senator in his time of terrible anguish, but our Presidents must be elected for their reliable strengths, not out of sympathy for their misfortunes." The essence, said the New York Post's Max Lerner, was that "at a crisis moment in his life, when another human life was at stake, Senator Kennedy was either thrown into confusion...
Although Kennedy had hinted long before the death of Mary Jo that he might not run in 1972, no one took his privately expressed doubts very seriously. Aside from his name, vigor, personal attractiveness and political aggressiveness, Kennedy also seemed the leader best equipped to unite his party's major factions. He is probably the only Democrat of national stature who has both a strong following among blacks and young people and firm ties with many Old-Politics professionals. He has become an increasingly articulate spokesman on major issues, most recently...
Saving Face. It was Dirksen who saved the Administration from its own intransigence. Acting without White House approval, he met quietly with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and negotiated a face-saving compromise. Mansfield, unwilling to saddle his party with the political responsibility for the death of the surtax, readily agreed to a six-month extension, retroactive to the June 30 expiration date of the original tax. The concession was good enough for Dirksen. He contacted White House Aide Bryce Harlow, who conferred with Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and accepted on behalf of the President...
...accepts a ride and disappears. Her body is found several days later. All the girls were brunette Caucasians, and all were murdered in rainy weather. Six of the seven were either strangled, stabbed in the neck or left with something twisted around their necks. The exact official causes of death: two by gunshot, two by strangulation, two by stab wounds and one by skull fracture...
...Aside from Karen Beineman and Jane Mixer, the victims were Mary Fleszar, 19, Joan Schell, 20, Maralynn Skelton, 16, Dawn Basom, 13, and Alice Kalom, 23, An eighth girl, Margaret Phillips, 25, was shot to death in her Ann Arbor apartment July 6, but a suspect has been arrested and police do not connect her death with the others...