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...tired and was returning to his room at the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown. Mary Jo left too, telling the Senator that she wanted to be driven back to her motel, some two miles from the Shiretown. But Mary Jo told none of the others; she left her pocketbook and her room key at the cottage...
Moreover, many questions were raised by the Kennedy story. Was it likely that Mary Jo would leave for her motel without her pocketbook or room key? How could Kennedy mistake a rough dirt road for the paved road leading to the ferry? Why had he not sought help at the houses that he passed after the accident? Why did he refuse to answer further questions about the affair, telling reporters, as he did last week, "I can live with my testimony...
...Albertson) who owns the garage he works in. Chico's humor, like Freddie's, is mordant but never really malicious. Says Prinze: "Chico's made something of a life that could have left him very bitter. He could have been anything from a pusher to a pocketbook snatcher...
Cloverleaf Visions. Today fumes from the internal-combustion engine and the fuel crisis seem to have America by the throat and pocketbook. Mass transit in most large cities is in a state of near collapse. Assessed with hindsight at such a time, Robert Moses' life and works sound baneful indeed. But as Caro himself points out, Moses was a visionary. He anticipated the onrush of the automobile age long before it came and tried to do something about it. When he started building public parks, nobody else was doing it, and his idea that they should be recreation areas...
...oceanographic studies as they have on offshore fishing. The Brazilians, for example, allow no unauthorized exploration within their 200-mile limit; they do not want outsiders charging around making discoveries that may bring multinational oil or mining firms following in their wake. For similar reasons of pride and pocketbook, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen, Kenya and Tanzania have all been discouraging further research expeditions by U.S. and other outside scientists in the Indian Ocean. Back in the 1960s, American research vessels were refused access to foreign waters only once or twice a year; 30 such refusals were reported...