Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between trips to Mexico, Haiti and Maine, he spent most of his time on Martha's Vineyard, reading, sailing and staying away from the news-although he could not resist tuning in some of the Watergate hearings and the Skylab coverage. Watching surrogates sitting in for him, had he not thought, "They're doing it all wrong?" An unexpected reply: "Not at all. I look at others and think they do a much better job on the air. I look at my tapes and shudder." Television's institutional anchorman shuddering at his own work? "I guess...
...couples who decide to share a house on Martha's Vineyard one horribly rainy summer are, like a lot of other people in their 30s, anxious not to be considered square. After all, they see the same swingy plays and movies as everyone else; they read the same magazine articles earnestly explaining how the multitudes have abandoned the old taboos. So one from Column A (Carmine Ciardi) and one from Column B (Lynne Lipton) feel a certain social obligation to try mate swapping...
...beat down on the dusty highway until the temperature reached the mid-90s, but the men doggedly marched on, carrying a coffin heaped with flowers. Before them, behind them, some 5,000 striking vineyard workers and their supporters trudged along. Some of them carried the blackeagle flags of the United Farm Workers Union, others a banner portraying the Virgin Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers...
...Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which ended in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne). As Joe drove his open Jeep along winding Polpis Road through the island's sparsely populated interior one afternoon, the vehicle skidded out of control on a curve and flipped...
When he filed his bill last year, Kennedy promised to modify the measure on the basis of reactions from the 12,000 permanent and 33,000 seasonal residents of the Nantucket Sound Islands. The reactions were bitterly divided. The Vineyard's permanent residents did not want to relinquish home rule, and 60% of them voted against the bill in a referendum last fall. Summer people, who pay property taxes but do not vote, would be given a share in administering the trust, and they generally favored the bill as the best way to preserve the islands' natural qualities...