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...arrived at the base and they promptly lined us up for orientation on our processing. "No nonsense and no trouble" was the essence of the message. The sergeant paused and that was my cue...
...needed a crowd. We knew he'd turn out a crowd, and with a crowd the cops would have a hard time laying hands on us." One hundred strong, the Invaders infiltrated the marchers' flanks, planning to disperse in flying squads and riot on cue. Their strategy was upset only because teenagers boiled over even before the scheduled time...
They screamed. They applauded wildly on and off cue. They tore off his cuff links and nearly toppled him from the podium. They waved signs proclaim ing KISS ME BOBBY, BOBBY IS GROOVY, 'BAMA FOR BOBBY. They showed that, given the right audience, Robert Kennedy can turn on the cus tomers like none of his competitors...
...ritual prior to the bloodletting. Loyalist Democrats, in their wisdom, found the President's speech "wise"; doubting Democrats like Wilbur Mills bespoke their position with silence; the Republicans tsk-tsked that the President had merely delivered a state-of-the-campaign address. Other non-developments materialized on cue. On opening day, the Senate bickered over whether to admit to the record an antiwar petition by Jeanette Rankin, 87, a former Congresswoman from Montana, who led 3,200 protesting women to the snowy foot of Capitol Hill. It took a roll-call vote to uphold the tradition of delaying such...
Died. Bert Wheeler, 72, vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood comedian; of emphysema; in Manhattan. Gifted with a rubberized grin, a quavering voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...