Word: island
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argue with him for even small raises.) But where his family is concerned he spends freely: $500,000 for his McLean house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves the outdoors, even though he has dry skin and too much exposure causes it to break...
...this point, it seems likely that the Carter-Kennedy battle will continue through the rest of the primaries, perhaps culminating in the free-for-all of eight primaries on June 3. Voters in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota and West Virginia will elect 696 delegates, more than one-fifth of the total that will select the party's presidential nominee at the convention in New York City in August...
...Irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable." That was Ted Kennedy's own assessment of his behavior ten years ago at Chappaquiddick Island after the automobile accident in which Mary Jo Kopechne died...
Events on that night of July 18-19, 1969, began with a cookout at a rented cottage on the island, which lies just across the channel from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard...
...radioactive gas and particles that rose from the stacks of a nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island last March may turn out to be as harmless to humans as many radiologists predict. But the cloud of uncertainty cast over the future of the beleaguered industry by the nation's scariest nuclear accident remains as dark as ever. This week the best-regarded of half a dozen commissions probing the accident will issue a scathing report that raises new questions about the safety of nuclear reactors and makes some important recommendations...