Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...analyzing Kenned's involvement in New York state polities. Author William vanden Heuval knows Tammany well: he ran against John Lindsay for Congress in 1960 and was a candidate for governor this year until he failed to win any votes at the Democratic state committee meeting in March. His account of Kennedy's role in the campaign to clean up the Manhattan Surrogate Court by challenging the bosses candidate in the primary is written with a passion that is rare for this book. Vanden Heuval goes on to show how Kennedy's unwillingness to involve himself in party politics...
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...central problem is the Encyclopedia Theory of History with which the authors have tackled their subject. In their eagerness to provide the definitive account of the spring events. the authors have crammed far too many names, dates, resolutions, and background details into the story. Throughout the crowded pages, they have been too timid about summarizing peripheral facts in order to highlight important ones. Unless readers assume that trivial details at Harvard are somehow more interesting than the same minutiae elsewhere, there is no reason for the profusion of data...
Judge James A. Boyle yesterday challenged the account Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) gave of the accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. Boyle said that he did not believe that Kennedy had driven accidentally onto the road leading to a Chappaquiddick Island beach, as Kennedy had testified...
...returns. But no sooner is he in "the circle of the frivolous damned" than the world's petty annoyances close in. Brother Georges, a witless executive living far beyond his means and on the verge of ruin, asks for and gets the balance in Pluche's bank account. Brother-in-Law Mesnard, an immensely successful painter who sold his talent out to fashionable tastes, has taken up with a young bird and threatens the happiness of Pluche's sister Marie...