Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, he prompted his hosts to think seriously about standing more independently in the future. He took care to limit the ceremonial aspects of the trip, but his very presence was highly symbolic. In office less than seven months, he had already toured Europe and Asia. The U.S. still looks out across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, he was saying, and a new President was clearly marking out his own way of dealing with friends and adversaries on both the troubled overseas continents crucial to U.S. interests...
...came out of School Road, which leads to the cottage where Kennedy's party had taken place. The car then crossed the intersection, drove onto a farmer's dirt lane on the other side, and hesitated for a minute. Thinking the driver might be lost, Look, still dressed in his uniform, stepped from his own vehicle and walked toward the black car, which was about 70 ft. away. The driver of the car thereupon backed out of the lane onto the main road and drove the other way-toward Dike Bridge. Look says that a man was driving...
Kennedy himself escaped questioning by pleading guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. Still, District Attorney Edmund Dinis was apparently so annoyed by criticism of his office's handling of the case that last week he belatedly sought an inquiry, taking the unusual step of asking the state superior court to begin a formal inquest. Normally the lower district court conducts inquests...
...looked at the body. Even using a very outside limit of nine hours, that would have placed the moment of death no earlier than 12:30 a.m. Dr. Mills admitted that a judgment based on the degree of rigor mortis is "at best inexact"; there was no autopsy. Still, Mills' statement either casts doubt on Kennedy's account as to the time of the accident or, even worse for the Senator, raises anew the possibility that Mary Jo remained alive for a time after the car sank in Poucha Pond...
...accident. The TIME-Har-ris poll showed that only 38% believe the Senator's claim that he "was not driving under the influence of alcohol"; 32% think that he was indeed affected by liquor, with 30% "not sure." By 51% to 31%, a majority agrees that "there still has been no adequate explanation of what he was doing at the party or with the girl who was killed...