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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the press coverage that Kennedy attracts, the Senator remains an enigmatic subject. Says Merrick: "Everyone may know about his troubled marriage and his sailing at Cape Cod, but little is known about what he really thinks. He has lived in the public eye so long that he has become a master at shielding his privacy...
...advance of that announcement, Ted Kennedy is already putting the screws to Democratic Senators and Congressmen, competing with Carter for their endorsements. The pressure from both rivals is heavy and direct, and some Democratic politicians try to please both. As Kennedy left the Senate floor one day, a well-known Democrat who has already announced his support for Carter beckoned the Senator aside. The Democrat passed Kennedy a list of people in his home state who might help him campaign. Said Kennedy: "He's playing both sides. There's a lot of that. People are staying loose...
...leave the Dirksen building for lunch. His fare: soup and a salad with low-calorie dressing, in keeping with the diet that holds his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 205 Ibs., 20 Ibs. lower than last February. Dieting does not come easily. Kennedy has been known to search his staffers' desks for peanuts and crackers. Ethel Kennedy says he can describe a meal with so much gusto that "you feel you've eaten it yourself...
Johns, as customers of prostitutes are known, are finding the times a bit tough these days. Last week in New York City, a burg known for its peccadilloes, the municipally owned radio station, under orders from Mayor Edward Koch, started broadcasting the names of men convicted of patronizing prostitutes. In Minneapolis, a city noted for its civic probity, some leading citizens were unmasked as sometime Johns. The Minneapolis Star published an expose identifying 13 men who have frequented certain sauna baths and other places of prostitution. Six of them are key public figures who have played a role in shaping...
...depends on your definition of "periodically." Buried in the middle of the May 1977 agreement that redefined Radcliffe's educational, financial and legal relationship with Harvard, there is a clause outlining the functions of the Joint Policy Committee. The Committee, or the JPC as it would probably be known if anybody except the members knew it existed, was established primarily to draw up the agreement...