Nation: LIVING WITH WHISPERS

AT least six songs entitled The Ballad of Mary Jo were submitted to New York publishers. Someone visiting the remote Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick carved TED & MARY in the bridge's wooden planks. Reporters and columnists kept up a flow of speculation that prompted the New York Times's James Reston, who agrees that Edward Kennedy's account of the fatal accident at Poucha Pond has not been satisfactory, to object that "he is being tried in the press before he gets to court."

Kennedy himself told a Boston Globe reporter last week, "I feel the...

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