Milestones, Nov. 26, 1973

Married. Kathleen Kennedy, 22, oldest of the late Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children; and David Lee Townsend, 25, Harvard doctoral candidate in history and literature and fledgling poetry publisher; both for the first time; in Washington, D.C. The bride was given away by her uncle, Ted Kennedy —whose son had just undergone surgery for cancer—and left the ceremony at her husband's side in the rumble seat of a vintage roadster. The newlyweds will reside in Cambridge, Mass., until they both receive their degrees in June (hers will be a B.A. from Radcliffe).

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