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...wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, public revulsion gave Congress its cue. Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings, the sponsor of a tough bill that would require licenses for the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, and registration of the weapons, was deluged with 10,000 letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck...
...cue, all three Democratic candidates last week took off the gloves and began punching barefisted. Eugene McCarthy, for the first time, directly charged Robert Kennedy with a major role in the initial decision to commit U.S. military power to Southeast Asia, declaring that Camelot II might lead to "further involvements like Viet...
...candidate's advance work, attempting to get the widest possible exposure with as much drama as possible. Kennedy and entourage roll up to a small-town school. No one is in sight. Will he be photographed being greeted by no one? Hardly. At the proper moment, kids stream on cue from every door, engulfing the candidate, filling the lenses. After stumping a city, the staff sometimes prepares an exhaustive written critique on what went right?and wrong...
...university completely. He led midday rallies at Low Library, threatened to defy university regulations by organizing another demonstration inside a campus building, staged a confrontation with New York City police outside the university's main gate in order to challenge the ban against outsiders on campus. On cue, some 1,000 demonstrators gathered at Broadway and 116th Street. But there was no repetition of the bloody clashes that had marked the previous week's events. Police shrugged off the student taunts, and within two hours the crowd dispersed...
...sweep the primaries, draw such big crowds and show such support in the polls that the convention delegates will have no choice but to leap aboard his steamroller. As he roared through Michigan, Indiana and West Virginia last week, the crowds and the polls, at least, were right on cue...