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Article: Kennedy Tries to Polish Faded Image; Senate Challenger Romney Offers Massachusetts Voters a Contrast
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- The Washington Post
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- October 7, 1994
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The scene was an almost-too-perfect metaphor for Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy's struggle to continue his 32-year career on Capitol Hill.
Standing on the balcony of the local whaling museum, facing a
replica of one of the whale-hunting ships that once brought
prosperity to this now-blighted city, was one of the "great whales"
of the Senate - not just because of the girth and blotchy skin that
have occasioned so much recent talk-show comment, but in the way
that Lyndon B. Johnson classified the Senate of the 1950s as "a lot
of minnows and a few great whales."
Kennedys have held that Senate post for 40 of the last 42
years, the only gap coming when a seat-warmer filled in between John
F. ...