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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent training would have freshly equipped him to deal with such emergencies, some of his other actions are open to question. Traveling from Fairfield to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., pilots follow one of two flight paths. The easier, safer route hugs the southern coast of Connecticut, keeping the plane within the comforting sight of land most of the time. The trickier one follows the line of Long Island, then sails out over water, passing only the relative lily pad of Block Island before reaching Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy chose the water route, and that may have been his undoing. "Fifteen...
...Within the zone, Kennedy was free to conduct his real life's work: not the magazine he launched, or the charities he volunteered for, or the law, but the cultivation of a basic, good-humored decency--an ordinariness that was his last defense against the extraordinary role life had handed him. He took the subway or rode a bike to work, hanging out mostly with friends who weren't at all famous, using his unparalleled celebrity mostly on behalf of good causes. At the same time, he went out of his way to joke with the tabloid reporters who watched...
...answer her own phone. She would even intellectualize the quest for privacy in a book on the First Amendment, In Our Defense. While John had an effervescent star quality, a glamour about him and his stylish wife, Caroline was incandescent, without a trace of glitz, but glowing from within. She was entirely free of the resentment that attaches to the famous. She never took its perks or used its privileges except in service of the family. After John's smashing performance at the Democratic Convention in 1988, she was asked to serve as chairwoman of the convention...
DIED. AARON LAPIN, 85, inventor of Reddi-wip; in Los Angeles. Lapin--nicknamed Bunny (his last name means rabbit in French)--introduced his aerosol canister of cream in 1946. Within five years, the former clothing salesman was a millionaire...
...This year we'll muddle through," Rudenstine told The Crimson in the spring, "but within 12 to 24 months, we'll be looking at disaster.... It is not an abstract concern...