Word: sands
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...dated May and November 1969, of the sandbar opening through which ocean tides swept northward into Katama Bay, through the channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick and out into the sound. According to the pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current of any strength. That interpretation concurs with what Ralph Martin, racing secretary...
Kennedy accused the Star of "irresponsible, shoddy and incomplete" reporting. His aides produced aerial photos showing the sand bar still open to the south on July 2-and indeed, on Oct. 24, 1969. The Star did not have the July 2 picture, which was obtained by the Kennedy staff two weeks ago from J. Gordon Ogden, a longtime summer resident of Martha's Vineyard who has compiled a book on the area's tides. But the Star did have the Oct. 24 photo. The newspaper's editors decided not to publish it because it was taken from...