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...Americans were dead. Embassy Stenographer Barbara Robbins, 21, who had come to Saigon from Denver six months before, died at her desk, a ballpoint pen still clutched in her hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed...
...Guevara glowers within sight of the Spanish master's only landscape, View of Toledo, and his last great commission, St. John's Vision. In adjacent quarters Poussin's Sabine women are abducted in the passionless postures of French neoclassic actors. Through another doorway the visitor is delivered into 18th century England, attended by four Gainsboroughs, three Reynolds portraits, a Romney, and a dozen other chamois-cheeked countenances that peer down, mellow within their lacework gilt frames, between ornate black marble period fireplaces...
Martin King hears "the clock of destiny ticking out," recognizes his own historical moment, breathes confidence in his ultimate triumph. Never does he place himself on the defensive, acknowledge that there are those who see him standing in the doorway he himself has opened, and old champion become an obstruction. Those who, while he stands solidifying old gains, want to push through the doorway and move...
Next time you walk by the CRIMSON look above the doorway to the small balcony. There every day in years past a plumed crier appeared daily to tell the world the news. Now, gnarled in body and knotty of mind, he emerges once yearly, on New Year's morn, to gurgle weird incantations about the coming twelve-month in Serbo-Croation. Below are his predictions, translated from the original...
...when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes and trigger-itchy cops in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Walking alone between the combatants, he roared: "My name is John Doar, D-O-A-R! I'm from...