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...duty, serenaded him on arrival at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, near St. Louis. He set his tone at once: "There are things wrong with this country, but the great thing about America is that we have the capacity to make those things right." When Nixon got to Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, the cares of Washington were washed away in the most tumultuous reception that he has been given since he won the 1968 nomination in Miami. He was among his own people, 14,000 Jaycees and wives-the Kansans in white cowboy hats, the Indianians in referees...
...crowded around the speakers platform were most reluctant to let Senator Goodell speak, and those running the show feared that the platform would be rushed, splitting of political hairs. The garments as rhetorical quibbling and upon first being exposed to the kind of debates that went on in the auditorium, one is tempted to see the arguticipants were intense- very intense. Most of the conference was conducted by shouting, and speakers were frequently interrupted by screams of angre from their ropponents. At times whole sections of the audie shout in unison such "BULLSHIT" or "POWER TO THE WORKERS," depending upon...
...also to realize that the auditorium was not filled with people who were there to listen quietly. Many of the people there had been leaders in their local communities and were used to giving speeches and disagreeing with people. The number of followers in the room was small. Most of the people in that room were leaders. Most of them were angry. They were angry at the society whose evils they were so familiar with. They were used to directing their anger at officials around them. Brought together in one room, they turned their anger upon each other...
Later, a Veteran for Peace said he wanted to urge people not to attend a demonstration where people might get hurt, namely the planned SDS demonstration against Mayor Stokes. Another person then rose to say he wanted to stay in the auditorium and discuss the future of the antiwar movement, which was supposedly the purpose of the conference. "I did not come 2000 miles to go to another demonstration," he said. Harry Ring, the editor of the Militant, then got up and said he opposed a demonstration against Mayor Stokes. He said the black people of Cleveland were under...
Once you have selected your night, and gotten your group together, you need only transport yourself to Symphony Hall. This is most efficiently accomplished by catching the Dudley bus at Harvard Square, getting off at the Auditorium stop, and walking four or five blocks to Symphony Hall. Of course the bus goes all the way to Symphony Hall, but it costs an extra twenty cents to ride just across the Mass Pike, and this money could be used to buy one fifth of a glass of Pops beer...