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...degenerate into sleazy checkout-counter revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party animal, the romance of the Kennedys into a smelly, toxic mess. The family patriarch, the oldest surviving Kennedy male, would revert to fat, sloppy baby...
This is not the same sweet, pudgy, pig-tailed little girl who grew up in a fashionable district of Spokane, the oldest of seven children of a prosperous Irish lawyer. Kitty's homelife, according to Gerri Hirshey, was mean and hard. She did not get along well with her heavy-drinking mother, a strict disciplinarian who padlocked the family refrigerator...
When officials of the financially strapped London Zoo let it be known that they may be forced to close the world's oldest animal park -- and perhaps even kill off some of its 8,000 inhabitants -- many expected there would be an outpouring of sympathy, and cash, from animal-loving Britons...
HARVARD CAN certainly boast one of the world's finest faculties. It can also boast one of the world's whitest, malest, oldest, stodgiest, non-teachingest faculties. Much can be done to attract professors of diverse races, genders, ages, academic backgrounds and educational attitudes without sacrificing quality...
...business at America's casinos? It all depends on where you look. In the nation's oldest gaming market, Las Vegas, winnings rose 14% last year and profits were up 25%, to $648 million. But in Atlantic City, where gambling has been legal since 1976, business has been a crapshoot at best. The city's dozen boardwalk casinos last week reported combined losses of $266 million for 1990, the first annual losses in a decade. One of the biggest losers: Donald Trump, whose Plaza, Castle and Taj Mahal gaming houses lost $174 million...