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...turned out to be the Campaign Issue That Will Not go Away. The Senator himself revived interest in the tragedy with his hesitant answers to questions about it posed by Roger Mudd during the now celebrated CBS interview in November. Last week separate stories in the Washington Star, Reader's Digest and New York Post fanned a new controversy at a critical time: just before the Jan. 21 Democratic caucuses in Iowa that began the process of selecting delegates to the presidential nominating convention in August...
...save Kopechne. Then they drove to the opposite end of Chappaquiddick, where, Kennedy said, he jumped into the water and battled a ferocious northward-flowing current to reach Edgartown, on the other side of a 500-ft. channel from Chappaquiddick (see map). For different reasons, the Star and Reader's Digest concluded that the tide had actually been flowing in the opposite direction and would have helped rather than endangered the Senator during his swim. The Digest flatly said that Kennedy's story "is false...
...reader may agree wholeheartedly with such statements and still have an uneasy feeling. Greenberg displays little of the sympathy she expended on the mentally ill in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) and on the deaf in In This Sign (1972). People in these stories are self-maimed, and get treated accordingly. The artistic regimen is ascetic. "Talmudic Law," one of her characters explains, "forbids the overdecorated letter, a letter for art's sake and not for the formation of legible words." Nothing is overdecorated here; Greenberg spends little time telling where her characters live or what...
...bone, insidiously subverting the official versions of history. Gore Vidal's Burr, for instance, and-more inventively-Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution plausibly :combine wit, suspense, speculation and scholarship. Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact...
...curse as would-be rescuers pass over and around, unaware of their piteous fires and cries. After 41 days in the mountains, only Coulter survives. He becomes an instant hero, on 60 Minutes, in LIFE and in the town. Gradually, the ole mountain boys begin to suspect what the reader already knows: the angry husband and his companion have been shot by Coulter. The engaging Mike Arizo has been left to die by the lecher. And the vigilantes begin to form. Wounded after a cruel snowmobile chase, Coulter has to face betrayal by the loving woman whose husband he killed...