Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your account of the Irish elections [June 27] gave disproportionate space to my candidature but neglected to mention the relevant fact that I was elected...
Even savage tribes, and in fact the lower animals, have strict sex regulations. This is necessary, as human experience has demonstrated. Now we have partially educated smart alecks who seem to feel that they have discovered sex. Their cry for emancipation from what they term prudery shows their stupidity and lack of anthropological perspective. We don't need more license; we need more common sense, restraint and decency...
...moon is rapidly becoming a mark of where one stands on political and social issues. If Apollo was a victory for U.S. engineering genius, it could not disguise American failures at home. That fact has already become a thundering cliche, and one that promises to be heard for a long time. If we can put men on the moon, why can't we build adequate housing? Or feed all citizens adequately? Or end social and economic injustices? (Or even make the airlines run on time?) One answer, at least, is obvious: unlike the moon landing, these earthbound problems involve...
...house had insufficient electrical capacity for TV equipment?Kennedy sought not only to fill some of the gaping holes in his earlier story, but, in an appeal slightly reminiscent of Richard Nixon's famous Checkers speech in 1952,* to salvage his political future as well. The appearance did, in fact, answer a few of the questions, but left the most serious ones unanswered and raised a few that had not been asked before. The questions and the facts, so far as they are known...
...several male Kennedy friends and retainers met for a cookout Friday, July 18, at the small, two-bedroom Lawrence cottage that Kennedy's cousin, Joseph Gargan, had rented on Chappaquiddick. Kennedy said he had "encouraged and helped sponsor" the gathering for the "devoted group" of women. It is a fact that such social reunions of Kennedy people are held occasionally, and this one was not at all unusual. (See more about Chappaquiddick...