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Cushing's stentorian, gravelly baritone took on a rare human appeal last year when he presided ("Hozahner in excelsis") at John Kennedy's funeral and steadied the President's widow beside the grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Says Robert Kennedy: "The President felt closer to him than to any other clergyman." Cushing, in turn, regards himself as a "spiritual father" to the Kennedy family. He celebrated the nuptial Mass at the wedding of Jack and Jackie, baptized Bobby's son Chris, and about once a month visits ailing old Joe "to tell him newsy things...
Married. Grayce Breene Kerr, 63, widow and a principal heir of Oklahoma's wealthy Democratic Senator (worth approximately $35 million at his death in 1963); and Olney Flynn, 69, onetime mayor of Tulsa, another wealthy oilman; both for the second time; in Minneapolis...
...fair trial before twelve unbiased jurors. Yet whatever tactics the defense tries - change of venue, peremptory challenges or cautionary instructions to the jury - all may be futile in a day when mass me dia confront potential jurors with everything from the murder weapon to the victim's widow. Such "prejudicial reporting" or pretrial press publicity has caused appellate courts to overturn more and more convictions...
Died. Mary Josephine Fitzgerald, 98, widow of Boston's famed Mayor "Honey Fitz" and maternal grandmother of John F. Kennedy, who watched on TV as J.F.K. took the presidential oath on her Bible and as Grandson Ted beat out George Lodge to become U.S. Senator (thereby avenging Honey Fitz's 1916 defeat by George's great-grandfather), but was never permitted to see or hear anything about the assassination-though the family "had a hunch she knew"; in Boston...
...another 800,000 people, including self-employed doctors, interns, and previously ineligible aged citizens. Under the House bill, which now goes on to the Senate, maximum monthly payments for single workers would be raised from $127 to $133.40, for a husband and wife from $190.50 to $200.10, for a widow with two children from...