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Died. Mrs. Joan Patricia Skakel, 39, Connecticut socialite and sister-in-law of Mrs. Robert Kennedy; of strangulation, when a piece of meat lodged in her larynx while she was dining in her Greenwich home, thus adding one more tragedy to the incredible series befalling the Skakel and Kennedy families. Her husband, George Skakel Jr., was killed last September in the crash of a light plane; his parents met a similar death in 1955; her daughter Kathleen, 17, was involved but later found blameless in the death of a neighbor's seven-year-old daughter last December, when...
Died. George Skakel Jr., 44, brother of Ethel Kennedy and head, since their parents' death in a plane crash, of the family-controlled Great Lakes Carbon Corp. (1965 sales: an estimated $125 million); with four other men (including onetime Kennedy Aide Dean Markham) in a plane crash during an elk-hunting trip; near Riggins, Idaho...
Born. To Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, 39, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...
Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 37, Attorney General of the U.S., and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 34: their eighth child, fifth son, and second July 4th baby (the other: eldest daughter Kathleen, 12), whose imminent arrival a week ahead of schedule brought the Marines on the double with a helicopter to fly Ethel, keeping calm, and Bobby, looking nervous, from Hyannis Port to a parking lot in Boston, where a police car took over for the rest of the trip to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for her delivery by caesarean section...
...favorite people, Vermont Ski Instructor Peter Estin, 35, was found dead in a New York hotel room of what was officially described as "visceral congestion." His funeral was in Boston last week. Charlene did not go, but Ghighi flew up in the private plane of George Skakel, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy. He returned in the evening, stopped at his Fifth Avenue apartment to dress for a dinner party. Charlene complained of a toothache, so Ghighi went by himself. Charlene and her stepdaughter Marina, 14-Ghighi's daughter by his second wife-settled down to watch the Academy...