Article: Palm Beach tries to ignore trial hoopla

PALM BEACH, Fla. So it's over. The dreadful camera people are leaving and soon - soon! - everyone will have forgotten about that awful unpleasantness at the Kennedy house.

Not that anyone really cared in the first place. They were Kennedys, after all, and this girl - well, what can one say about her? What clubs did she belong to?

When you come right down to it, the whole affair was really rather . . . ordinary.

The world might have been watching Palm Beach over the past two weeks while William Kennedy Smith stood trial and was acquitted of rape charges, but few people here shared the popular fascination. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it.

After all, scandals might come and ...

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