As Senator Ted Kennedy politicked through New England, he was often afflicted by a problem that was never mentioned in any campaign speeches and rarely elsewhere: severe pain in his lower back. Kennedy crushed three vertebrae in the crash of a small plane in 1964. Since his recovery, he has suffered periodically from back troublemuch as his brother John did in his rocking chair in the White House. On one extended foray, the Senator flinched visibly every time he clambered out of the eight-seat Piper Chieftain that took him from New York City to his stops in three New England states....
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