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After lunch on Curragh, Kennedy frequently races off Hyannis Port aboard his 25-ft. Wianno Senior Victura. Wearing shorts and a T shirt, he jovially bellows orders at his crew, usually Nephew Joe and Son Patrick. Kennedy likes to win and often does. After the races, there is more fishing, more swimming, more tennis (in Washington, he plays doubles two or three times a week; his back does not permit singles). Opponents describe him as having a solid serve and playing aggressively...
...staff about the same size as those of other committee chairmen. Generally in their 20s and 30s, his aides are exceedingly loyal and enthusiastic, and heartily disliked by colleagues on Capitol Hill for always putting Kennedy's interests first. Unlike most Senate staffs, Kennedy has no office manager. The senior men report directly to Kennedy. The most important aide is ten-year veteran Carey Parker, 44, Kennedy's balding, warmly humorous chief legislative assistant. The other top aides include Stephen Breyer, 41, who took a leave from his professorship at Harvard Law School to serve as chief counsel...
Burke, 26, the Senator's administrative assistant. There are only men at the top level of Kennedy's staff; women work in subordinate jobs. Aides have urged him to put women in senior positions, but he has not done...
...Senior Reed Eichner scrambled for the last couple of miles to take 15th for the Crimson, while teammate Buck Logan garnered 20th. Turning in his strongest performance of the season, captain Thad McNulty took 25th and Noel Scidmore rounded out the Harvard scoring with a 30th-place finish...
...from both Harvard and Radcliffe, separates it from the run-of-the-mill University committee. The Joint Policy Committee is, in essence, the last resort--the place where the buck may finally stop on the long and tortuous administrative path. "It's really there to settle thorny problems." says senior corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 who sits on the committee. "I like to think of it as a safety valve...