Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutors say that they will fight to prevent Pancoast's attorneys from turning the defendant's murder trial into an expose of the relationship between Vicki Morgan and Alfred Bloomingdale. There is no evidence of a conspiracy behind Morgan's sad, shabby death. But the prosecution's case against Pancoast is far from ironclad. Beyond his now repudiated confession, there is no hard evidence. A strong motive has not been established, and the investigation of the case was strikingly inept. The police neglected to seal off the scene of the crime and did not recover...
...AMIDST all this justified condemnation, it's worthwhile to note a couple of sad things about Markey's exit things that seem to have been missed in the rush to bury a man who didn't know how to go about screwing...
...moment, the tragedy is that Ed Markey missed a stellar chance to join the great American screw-up tradition (if he lost the senate race) or to agitate a glacially staid legislative body (if he won). Now that is sad...
David died alone in a hotel room in Palm Beach, a sad and private capitulation to drugs and confusion and an unappeasable grief. The burden to which he was heir was not the burden of public service and sacrifice, but the (for him) unbearable burden of being a Kennedy. And the burden of an appetite for drugs that he could not control. Yet though his death was miserably private, being a Kennedy he also became a public example, a sermon against drugs that parents will preach to their children for months hence...
...Sad news from Paris the other day: they have abolished the carte pneumatique, otherwise known as the pneu, an institution that dates back to the empire of Napoleon III. For those who did not spend some of their youth in Paris and therefore do not know about the pneu, it was a letter on gray paper that whizzed through a 269-mile network of pneumatic tubes and then was delivered by a mailman on a bicycle. Faster than an ordinary letter (it took about two hours) but cheaper ($1.80) than a telegram, the pneu provided a valuable service...