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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though still a freshman, Bobby has successfully introduced four well-reasoned amendments-one providing for federal checks on the quality of schools receiving Government aid; one extending Appalachian aid to 13 New York counties; one aimed at the state's 1,000,000 Puerto Ricans, permitting non-English-speaking citizens to vote if they have attended American-flag schools and are literate in another language; and one directing the President to establish a long-range planning committee for foreign...
...portrait of J.F.K., State of the Union. On another is an oil portrait entitled Before His Last Mission, showing Joe Jr., eldest of the Kennedy children, in flying togs just before his death in 1944, when an explosives-laden plane in which he was flying blew up over the English Channel. Opposite Bobby's desk, in stark contrast to the collection of his children's watercolors, are memorabilia of J.F.K.-whom he almost always calls "the President" or "President Kennedy," rarely "my brother" and never "Jack." There are several photos, a framed scratch sheet with Jack...
...sold it for $840 to London Antique Dealer Benjamin Gray, who carried it back to England and set it up in his shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody wanted it. "I even tried the Prime Minister and the lord mayor," said Gray. Finally a few members of the Dublin City Council agreed to meet Gray in a perfunctory little ceremony in O'Connell Street, where they accepted the head and dragged it away...
...John F. Mahoney, chairman of the English department at the Jesuits' University of Detroit, is one such self-styled "growingly noninstitutional Catholic." Mass, for him, need not be the conventional Sunday service at the parish church down the street; it is just as likely to be an unauthorized, experimental liturgy celebrated by a radical priest-friend in his own living room. Irreverence toward ecclesiastical tradition is common among Uncatholics. They tend to dismiss the veneration of Mary as irrelevant today and refer to the Mass as "the magic show." More seriously, these Catholics ask whether the church needs...
...English-Polynesian starlet named Laya Raki tore off her bikini top for photographers at the Venice Film Festival last week, but that was mostly because she was only an English-Polynesian starlet named Laya Raki and it was the Venice Film Festival...