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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, L.H.D. Because you have tirelessly devoted yourself to the problems of those outside the mainstream of society...
...President Ford's plea for further military aid. Observed Democrat Don Bonker of Washington State: "People are drained. They want to bury the memory of Indochina. They regard it as a tragic chapter in American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly pro-war steel towns of western Pennsylvania: "In retrospect, most people realize that regardless of how much...
...sister is the real spark plug of the family," cracked Ted Kennedy after Eunice Shriver had assembled a crowd of 1,350 at Washington's Kennedy Center. Eunice's guests had come to see some song and dance by Barbra Streisand and James Caan, stars of the new movie Funny Lady, and to help boost the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation's Special Olympics for retarded children. The program provided one misstep after another for Today show Empress Barbara Walters, who stumbled on her way up to a stage and grabbed the first helping hand in sight. "When...
...poignant family memory was evoked last week at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ethel Kennedy, her 20-year-old son Bobby Jr., Senator Ted Kennedy, his wife Joan and sisters Eunice Shriver, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, joined some 325 journalists and friends at the sixth annual presentation of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards, which honored reporting on minority-group problems. Then Ethel thanked CBS's Roger Mudd for his stint as awards chairman. "I would like to add one personal note," she began, only to come near tears as she recalled the tragedy in a kitchen...
...permeating the air as the Nixon Youth celebrated its leader's victory. But the slogan which once rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...