Word: jo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official inquiries and public explanations concerning last July's Chappaquiddick tragedy have produced more questions than answers about Senator Edward Kennedy's role in the accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. The findings of the last round, an inquest on Martha's Vineyard in January, have yet to be made public. Now it seems that some new disclosures-and possibly more trouble for the Senator-are imminent. District Attorney Edmund Dinis last week requested that a grand jury look into the case, a move that increased the likelihood that the entire Chappaquiddick affair may soon be aired...
...second petition apparently concerned Boyle's report and was quickly granted. Late in February, Hanify examined inquest documents, presumably including the Boyle report, which was available only to District Attorney Dinis, the state's attorney general, those named in the report as having possible responsibility for Mary Jo's death, and their counsel...
...censure hearings in the mid-1950s. But Andy Austin, a pretty mother who graduated from Vassar in 1957, got her first news assignment at the Chicago Seven trial. She started out sketching it for herself and landed a job with ABC when another artist left to cover a Mary Jo Kopechne hearing...
...Died. João Café Filho, 71, former President of Brazil, who as vice president under Getúlio Vargas assumed office upon the dictator's suicide in Aug. 1954, quickly won a reputation as a fair-minded administrator, dedicated to stabilizing Brazil's chaotic one-crop (coffee) economy, only to be forced into retirement by a heart attack after 15 months in office; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro...
...attempts to recreate Georgy Girl's stylish London also fail. Jo Miclziner's sets have no unity and seem rather a grabbag of Sean Kenny schtick with a few Oliver Smith staircases thrown in. Patricia Zipprodt-the best costume designer in the business-has managed to add to the trampiness of Meredith by giving her a succession of booker-ish rather than Mod-ish outfits. Peter Hunt's staging is in the best Hot Spot tradition...