Word: dones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked specifically about Chappaquiddick, 76% say, as did 79% in a TIME poll a year ago, that "it is time to forget Chappaquiddick and judge Kennedy by what he has done since then." Similarly, 63% say that the accident should not be an issue in the campaign. Nonetheless, 44% say that they are still bothered by Kennedy's part in the incident. Among independents and Democrats who prefer Carter to Kennedy, that figure is higher (55%), suggesting that Chappaquiddick is costing Kennedy support...
...descent. It was especially complicated because the approach lights on the closed Runway 23-L, which pilots usually follow to guide their planes down, had been shut off. The Mexican controllers instructed Gilbert to line up his plane over an undisclosed ground reference point. He reported that he had done so, but Controller Luis Munguia warned: "You are at the left of the track." The pilot replied confidently, "Just a little...
...million emergency grant for Cambodian refugees and has recruited a team of medical volunteers to work in the camps. The scores of countries participating in this week's U.N. conference on Cambodia are expected to pledge considerably more assistance. Among them will be the U.S.S.R. Although the Soviets have done nothing to assist Western aid efforts, they are expected to boast of their food shipments to Cambodia, though it is unclear how much of this food is channeled to the occupying Vietnamese forces...
...Northern Ireland, which is very welcome. There is also the role of the so-called four horsemen [Senator Edward Kennedy, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, Senator Daniel Moynihan and New York Governor Hugh Carey]. That people of their caliber are aware of the damage that is being done is very helpful...
...reverence accorded to Beuys' work in Germany happened two years ago, when one of his pieces-a bathtub on a stand, dotted with bits of sticking plaster-was mistakenly used to cool beer during a party in the museum where it was stored. No damage was done to it, but the owner sued and was given $94,000 damages by a German court, a verdict happily greeted by Beuys as a victory over the "exploitative self-interest" of the beer drinkers. Plainly, something had happened to the avant-garde in the half-century since Marcel Duchamp suggested using...