December 17, 1964

BOSTON. Dec. 16—Senator Edward M. Kennedy made good a promise today by walking out of the New England Baptist Hospital in time for Christmas; as he said he would six months ago when his back was broken in a plane crash. Later, he flew to Miami and then to Palm Beach, Fla., for the holidays. “We're delighted the doctors could get me out of here in time for the start of the Senate session,” he said to about 100 well‐wishers on leaving the hospital. “After all, there's a young Senator from New York who might want to take my seat if I weren't there to fill it.” The New Yorker is Robert F. Kennedy, his older brother, who was elected on Nov. 3. Four hours earlier, at 5 A.M., Senator Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, arose and was driven 25 miles north to a cemetery in Andover in 10‐degree weather. He made an unannounced visit to the grave of Edward Moss, his special aide, who was killed in the plane crash on June 19 in western Massachusetts.

PARIS, Dec. 16—President de Gaulle's Government moved slowly but perceptibly today toward a more accommodating position in relations with the United States.

A bizarre weekend “gambling junket” by New Yorkers to a Caribbean island has touched off a Federal review of such flights to all foreign and domestic gambling areas.

Although the country is enjoying the longest and strongest boom in its economic history, New York City's economy has failed to generate a single additional job, outside of construction, in the last five years.

ALBANY, Dec. 16—This was the day the Republican reapportionment bills were supposed to go to the Legislature. They didn't, so the Legislature went home.