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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The last of the Kennedy brothers, the youngest, the most vulnerable, the most thoroughly political, is finally running for President. For more than a decade, he has distorted American presidential politics, three times a possible candidate and three times pulling back. "I would like to be President," he said at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Lately the word liberal has become something of a political epithet, meaning that the target is an impractical spendthrift. Kennedy's staff has taken to calling him a "pragmatist," which is supposed to convey the impression that he is a hard-headed problem solver not bound by any ideology. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

TIME's Robert Ajemian recently joined Ted and Patrick for dinner at Kennedy's home. His report: he Senator stood in the bedroom, dressing for a night swim and needling Patrick about the cold pool waiting outside. Kennedy slipped off the canvas back brace he usually wears under his suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The partygoers were Kennedy, five other men and six women. The women were all in their 20s and veterans of Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. After several hours over drinks, snacks and charcoal-broiled steaks, Kennedy and Kopechne, 28, left in his black Oldsmobile sedan. He claimed later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Night That Haunts Him | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The twelve-member commission selected by Jimmy Carter is headed by Dartmouth College President John Kemeny, an eminent mathematician and nuclear expert, and has as members a balance of leaders from the sciences, politics, labor and academe. Nuclear power proponents had hoped that an unbiased investigation would find the Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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