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Week of Jan. 1, 1965
Ethel Kennedy, expecting her ninth child in a couple of weeks, whirls around Manhattan's Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink with Senator-elect Bobby Kennedy and five of their clan. "I've had a flood of calls from patients asking, If Ethel can do it, why can't I?" says an obstetrician.