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Joan Kennedy is a woman whose warmth and charm would have shone in almost any field of life. She has taught in public school and performed a Mozart piano concerto and read Peter and the Wolf with the Boston Symphony. Says one Bostonian who knows her well: "There isn't anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good." But public life has not been kind to Joan Kennedy. Its wounds can be seen in the puffy eyes, the exaggerated makeup, the tales of alcoholism. Today she is a sadly vulnerable soul and an unknown factor...
...this campaign, Byrd has prepared himself extensively. He says that he has exhaustively studied the seven-year history of the SALT II negotiations and has read every line of the proposed treaty, a 209-page secret report about the ability of the U.S. to monitor Soviet compliance with SALT, and transcripts of the three Senate committees that have been hearing testimony on the pact. He has also discussed SALT's details and geopolitical significance with, among others, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, heads of several NATO countries, and, during a special summer visit to the Soviet Union, Communist...
...city came to life in the morning, there were neither grieving crowds nor rejoicing students, but the streets were decked with black streamers and passers-by stopped to read the shocking headlines...
...only by birth. From the time he left his home on Hungary's central plains, his only known belief was that summed up by the aphorism ''Living well is the best revenge.'' It was something he had obviously read up on in the books he devoured as a child, feeding the fantasy life that he turned into elegant reality. He took his two talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded...
...Every time I read about Harvard's huge endowment, I feel sick," Daniel Clinton, a city council candidate, says. Clinton, demanding a more active city response to Harvard policies, says the University is getting richer at the expense of Cambridge...