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...Masters have decided to enforce one urgent parking restriction in the House area, but have tabled action on determining a definite answer to the whole parking situation, according to Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs...
Action on the parking problem in the area of the Houses--except for parking on Mill St.--will be delayed, "probably until the end of the football season," Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said last night...
Against these quiet fates, the author sets the civic uproar of Soviet public life, "the elaborate trumpery of our heroic age proudly proceeding across the face of the earth, clanking its medals." It is a time of hysteria, of a paranoid spy mania, and there are rumors that "cancer germs concealed in matches had been infiltrated into the country by a foreign power (you pick your teeth with a match and it's all over with you), or that, under the influence of cosmic rays, women were giving birth to girls (to the detriment of our army...
Pulling into Oakland, the New Frontier Special was as gay as a football train, and Campaign Schedule Manager Kenny O'Donnell was busy revamping Kennedy's schedule to include more and longer whistle stops. In Oakland, the gloomy forecasts of local politicos came to nothing: the civic auditorium brimmed over with 6,000 yelling Democrats, and 500 others shuffled in the street outside...
...disappointing by turn. In Detroit, 35.000 listless labor unionists turned up in Cadillac Square for the traditional Labor Day speech-far fewer than the 100,000 the labor bosses had promised. In Portland, Ore., on the other hand, several hundred latecomers were turned away at the door of the Civic Auditorium, while the youthful capacity crowd of 6,000 whooped it up inside with Happy Days Are Here Again and balloons and swarmed onto the stage after the beaming candidate. The size and mood of the crowds varied puzzlingly from stop to stop, and Kennedy's most consistent admirers...