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Blackmer said he and his wife then went to talk to the policeman in the booth at the Square. "I said, 'can I talk to you,' and he said something like 'sure kid, start talking.' So he tried in his way to get the story out of me and I, being furious, tried to tell the story...
...policeman reportedly sat back in the booth when Blackmer began talking, so he "was just talking up at a blank window." When the policeman asked where the attack had occurred, Blackmer said, he pointed towards the cemetery. He said that when the policeman asked a second time he replied, "by that god damn church up there...
...every turn, Road branches into familiar byways. In its world of intrigue, menace is measured by the arched eyebrow and the smiling threat. All arrivals and departures are eyeballed by at least one sinister type, who glances at his watch and swiftly darts into a phone booth. But never mind the photostats. Someone should have rung up James Bond for clues on how to play a goshawful thriller for real laughs...
Lyndon, meanwhile, journeyed to a Governors' reception at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Mrs. Mark Hatfield, wife of Oregon's Republican Governor, pinned a red carnation on Johnson's lapel. Leaving the Michigan booth, Lyndon called to Republican George Romney, "Pick up the phone and call me any time!" He lingered long, speaking softly to Governor Paul Johnson at the Mississippi booth. Connecticut's John Dempsey urged Lady Bird, with a nod at the President: "Take care of him, sweet Lady...
...Booth Tarkington were to write Seventeen today," says a Connecticut high school English teacher, "he'd have to call it Twelve." Sociologist Reuel Denney notes with fascination the shopping list of a twelve-year-old suburban girl: "Water pistol, brassiere, permanent." When a 16-year-old Louisville boy, as a practical joke, gravely announced at dinner that his girl friend was pregnant, the first reaction of the stunned family came from the boy's younger brother, 13. "My God," he said. "You'll lose your allowance...