Word: mother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose, Kennedy told police, was to catch the last ferry at midnight back to Martha's Vineyard. The Senator, said one of the women last week, wanted to turn in early so that he would be rested for the second race the next day, and Mary Jo's mother later observed that "M.J." was a "sleeper" who usually retired early. Kennedy reportedly offered to take Miss Kopechne back with him when Mary Jo said that she was tired...
...side of the moon. Then Armstrong and Aldrin left the LM so quickly that ground controllers, caught by surprise, sounded a bit put out. "You beat us to the punch," groused Mission Control. And why not? The two moon walkers were as anxious to return to the mother ship as Columbia's Pilot Collins was anxious to see them...
...Brussels restaurant owner, Suenens was raised by his widowed mother, sponsored for the priesthood and sent to Rome to study at 17 by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier. The young Suenens chose the progressive cardinal as his spiritual director and carried on a close correspondence with him. A brilliant student at Rome's Gregorian University, where he earned doctorates in theology and philosophy and a baccalaureate in canon law, Suenens returned to Belgium to become a professor of philosophy, at the age of 25, at Malines Seminary. A decade later he was named vice-rector of Belgium...
Stewart's father ran a small garage near Dumbarton, and his mother was a lively lady who liked to roam the moors in modified sports cars. After her first son's ill-starred attempts at a racing career, though, she had no intention of letting Jackie get behind the wheel. The young man did not much care; he was too busy pursuing his first love-trap shooting. "I put more effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships...
Cautious Conservatism. After he joined the European circuit in 1964, he and Clark shared an apartment in London. Their digs soon became known in racing circles as the "Scottish Embassy." Stewart married a Lowland lassie, Helen McGregor, who came to understand the substance of her mother-in-law's fears. At the Belgian Grand Prix in 1966, her husband's car spun out of control as he whipped around a rain-slick corner at 150 m.p.h., and ripped through a telegraph pole and a tree before it screamed to a halt. For 35 minutes Stewart was trapped...