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...organized teams, and estimates are that another 400,000 players turn out for pickup games. Such elusive backs as Washington State's Keith Lincoln (see above) learned some of the tricks of their trade on local teams. Games crop up like clover on the lawns surrounding the Coliseum. On nearby beaches, college students play in the 100° temperatures of August. One collegian has a touch team that takes on all challengers for money. "We're loaded," he says. "We've got two ex-high school sprinters and a deadeye passer...
...Manhattan, after a big, noisy torchlight parade from Times Square, Kennedy told a tumultuous crowd at the Coliseum: "I want above all else to be a President known, at the end of four years, as one who not only prevented war but won the peace-as one of whom history might say, 'He not only laid the foundations for peace in his time, but for generations to come as well...
...Coliseum, where Kennedy arrived at 9:30 after canceling his parade, about a hundred young girls wearing Kennedy hats formed an alley for the Senator and lesser dignitaries like Mayor Wagner, Carmine DeSapio and Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson...
...lovely partisan show, and the people--who had been waiting in a cold, driving rain for nearly three hours--enjoyed it immensely. Properly fired up, as the crowd inside the Coliseum had not been, they marched away through the rain, shouting "Let's back Jack!" A peddler selling Kennedy buttons and hats did good business, and, looking very confident, the candidate went off to tackle Connecticut...
...help out his ticket, the President announced in Palm Springs later that he was "going into the political field Nov. 2." Ike's entrance: a motorcade into Manhattan with Nixon and Lodge, followed by a party rally at the New York Coliseum, a nationwide TV broadcast...