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...time at 1 :45 p.m., 10,000 keyed-up golf fans were strewn around the 6,894-yd. course. Wise ones invested in cardboard periscopes; wiser ones bought two, used Scotch tape to build periscopes on periscopes. All of them, it seemed, were for Palmer, the home-town hero. "Attaboy, Arnie!" cried the fans. "Go get him, Arnie, baby!" Some suggestions were even more pointed: "Needle him, Arnie." "Walk around while he's putting, Arnie...
...taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump, no guts?" somebody asked Goalie Lome Worsley, who answered with a brisk curse. But then Center Andy Bathgate stepped quietly onto the sidewalk, and the fans' mood changed abruptly. "Attaboy, Andy," they murmured. "Attaboy, Andy baby...
Most of the participants in the rally were judges, attorneys, and messenger boys, not too happy about the 35-degree cold and giving up their lunch-hours, but full of Democratic jocularity. "Attaboy, Julius," somebody cried as Julius Ansel, State Representative from the 14th Ward, got up to speak. "The dirtiest approach ever," he called Volpe's tactics. "He advocates closing the Boston Hospital while he sits in his mansion in Winchester, enjoying his wealth. SHAME on that man." As for Volpe's allegations concerning Ward, he had only to say, "There sit Ward's seven daughters at home...
Kills him, he is holding stomach, laughing. Someone in press behind says "attaboy." Nikita is talking to me, also sort of for benefit of Bulganin, who is leaning in, enjoying it all. We are all pushed together close. Nikita's eyes all crinkled up, he looks like real happy peasant. Holds hand up in protest. Snap, snap...
Great rustle among U.S. correspondents, notes flapping, team is behind me, the old American spirit, attaboy, that's telling him, you're doing great...