Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recollection of how he got out of the car, he did remember trying to rescue Miss Kopechne. Kennedy, who wears a back brace and is still in pain as a result of injuries suffered in a 1964 plane crash, recalled: "I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove into the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt." As for his failure to report the accident, he maintained that he "was exhausted and in a state of shock." Kennedy's explanation was supported by his family...
Children's Books-Ages 7 to 14 GOODBYE, DOVE SQUARE, by Janet Mc-Neill (Little, Brown; $4.50); TROUBLE IN THE JUNGLE, by John Rowe Townsend (Lippincott; $3.75); THE LIVERPOOL CATS, by Sylvia Sherry (Lippincott; $3.95). Three fine books about domestic adventures-including murder-set in the slums of English cities. The writing is clear and fast paced, without ever talking down to the reader. Americans may be stumped by an occasional term-perhaps not by "tea" for supper, or "chips" for French fries, but certainly by "scuffers" for cops...
James had come through. Simultaneously toughened and mellowed by his ordeal, he was ready for what devoted Jacobins agree was his major phase: The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl. He had managed that extremely difficult feat: he had lost innocence without losing integrity. "The most beautiful word in the language?" James asked himself. In his notebooks he answered: "Youth!" With his life he answered: "Maturity...
...hard-fighting Ohioan. Unfortunately, Mr. Geoghegan seems to have felt the need to built up Mr. Gilligan by tearing down his Republican opponent, the now Senator William Saxbe of Ohio. Lest your readers be misled into believing that last year's Senate race was really between "a liberal dove candidate named John Gilligan" and a 'non-entity" (Saxbe) running a multimillion dollar demogogic campaign against "arson and rape," and "Ohio's Red Threat" (Gilligan), I would like to state the following facts...
Nine thousand Bostonians went to Boston Gardens for the "eleven Votes for Peace" rally, which many Harvard students had helped plan. Onetime Presidential contender Eugene McCarthy told the crowd to work for "dove" Senatorial candidates, but McCarthy surprised some party officials by failing to say anything about Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign...