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More than the streets were hot at day's end, however, as anti-draft demonstrators' attempts to blockade the city's main post office brought first the police--then a nearby crew of construction workers, offering physical help and singing "God Bless America...
...event finds himself brought up short when he looks out and fails to see the deep-blue warm-up suits with the red-and-white USA on the back of the jerseys. The reaction has had its odd consequences. One tourist group in Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square, near the guards at Lenin's tomb. They thought better of it - which is fortunate...
...matter what their political views, virtually all Republicans at the convention were enthusiastic about their nominee. Despite the steaming Midwestern heat (97° F on the second day at the convention), which taxed the arena's air conditioning, the thousands of delegates, alternates and guests chanted "Viva! Olé!", sang God Bless America, danced in the aisles and blew on party horns for 15 minutes after awarding the nomination to Reagan. Said Terrance Martin, 84, a delegate from Lake Havasu City, Ariz., as he stood clapping to celebrate Reagan's nomination: "This is what I've been working for since 1920, when...
Security guards at the school said they called the police because they feared some students might attack the demonstrators. Many of the high school students formed in a circle around the RCP members, and some sang "God Bless America" to drown out the speeches...
...turned out, only Kate Smith could prevent lightning from striking twice in the same playoff year. Five years ago tonight, the white-haired, bespectacled, jolly good luck charm whom the Flyers trotted out to sing "God Bless America" in place of the national anthem on only the most special--or, in this case, desperate--of occasions, did her thing...