Word: nightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the ferry to Edgartown had been shut down at midnight, the Senator swam across the 500-ft.-wide channel and walked to his inn. He changed into dry clothes and spoke briefly to the innkeeper. Gargan and Markham, meanwhile, returned to the cottage for the night. Following Kennedy's instructions, they told no one about the accident...
Kopechne's death and Kennedy's actions that night have been the subject of a police inquiry, court inquest, at least five books and countless investigations by magazine, newspaper and TV reporters. Almost everything in Kennedy's description of the night's events has been challenged; even the judge who presided at the inquest was skeptical. But Kennedy has steadfastly stuck by his account, which he first related on TV a week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that...
...years afterward, he argues that his actions that night do not reflect on his judgment today. Somewhat stoically, he told TIME: "People may not believe me or accept some of my answers. But the idea that the people who were there that night are holding back some secret is just all wrong. The essence of the event for me is that the girl is dead. There is nothing else...
...product of night law school in Minnesota rather than the Eastern Establishment, Burger had been a judge on the prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where he had often criticized the Warren Court's liberal decisions on the rights of the criminally accused...
...their students needed more help in handling drink, the U.S. Brewers Association obligingly announced it would publish a quarterly On-Campus Review to help concerned administrators keep up to date on consumption. To cut down on drunken driving, the University of Massachusetts encourages students to use a free Saturday night bus service, dubbed "the drunk run," which shuttles back and forth between local gin mills and the UMASS campus in Amherst. Dartmouth is considering a similar shuttle...