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What will the inquest, due to begin this week at Edgartown, do to make sense of that bizarre and tragic night? The answer will obviously depend upon the candor and character of those who attended the cookout, including Kennedy, and upon the acuity of the questions raised by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. It will also rest significantly upon how far the presiding judge, James A. Boyle, permits Dinis to range in exploring not only the immediate circumstances of the accident but also the actions and omissions of Kennedy and his friends afterward. Last week Boyle indicated that he would allow...
...Kennedy through "Boots" Moss, an aide who died in Kennedy's 1964 airplane crash. Now a civil defense adviser in Massachusetts, he was a professional fireman in Andover, Mass., for almost nine years. He was highly trained in all forms of rescue work and, had he been called upon, might have been invaluable on the night of Mary Jo Kopechne's drowning: even if Mary Jo was beyond saving, his presence would have strengthened Ted's claim to have done everything he could for the girl...
...leading businessmen who are worried about the recent flight of major firms to less congested sites on the other side of the Bay. Last week San Francisco's Board of Supervisors removed the last obstacle to construction when it granted Transamerica the right to close off and build upon a short stretch of Merchant Street. Now Transamerica has the ground footage it needs, and construction is scheduled to start late this fall...
...when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover spheres of blue fire that are intelligent beings-free spirits, as it turns out, long liberated from the pains, and the sins, of the body. And in a recent, surprisingly touching Star Trek TV script, the crew of the spaceship Enterprise stumble upon the Greek God Apollo on a distant planet, only to tell him that they can no longer worship him, as they did when he and his race of supermen lived on earth...
...which dies in the process-for having as commanding officer the grossly incompetent Major General William George Keith Elphinstone. "Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such a ruinous defeat," remarks Flashman with customary charity. "We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again." At his best when savaging real people and slinking through real events. Flashman keeps his narrative moving smartly. Perhaps to make room for other sorts of depravity, sex is at a happy minimum, though he does deal out the Kama Sutra ("It is all nonsense, for the seventy...