Word: dike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly 21 days after Kennedy's Car plunged off the narrow Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, District Attorney Edmund Dinis and District Court Judge James Boyle met last week to resolve procedural confusion over whether or not to hold a belated inquest. The conference ended with Boyle's announcement that an inquest would be convened in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, on Sept. 3. At the same time, Dinis continued his efforts to have Mary Jo's body exhumed so that an autopsy could be conducted...
Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson became the first to publish a widely circulated notion that Kennedy, immediately after the accident, had Joe Gargan, his cousin, agree to "admit to driving the car." The columnists said that Ted Kennedy, Markham and Gargan returned to the Dike Bridge "to make certain that Gargan would be totally familiar with the circumstances surrounding 'his' unfortunate accident." But "in the cold light of dawn," say Pearson and Anderson, the Senator "decided to face the consequences himself." Whatever its implausibilities, the story would explain why Kennedy might have wished to establish an alibi...
They are a game lot--North Flight, winner of three stakes in a row and placed in a fourth; Dike, winner of the Wood Memorial and third in two of the classics; and Al Hattab, winner of three stakes including the Fountain of Youth. There will be others...
Previously Arts And Letters had won--some say stolen--the Belmont Stakes. The odds against him were eight to five. The policemen that day were Majestic Prince, Prime Fool, Distray, Dike, and Rooney's Shield. A medieval lot. The best of this assortment was found wanting by five and a half lengths when the little terror romped across the finish...
...driver might be lost, Look, still dressed in his uniform, stepped from his own vehicle and walked toward the black car, which was about 70 ft. away. The driver of the car thereupon backed out of the lane onto the main road and drove the other way-toward Dike Bridge. Look says that a man was driving the car and that a woman was on the front seat beside him. He is uncertain whether or not there was still a third person...