Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Room's main door. Bill Barry, his bodyguard, wanted to go that way despite the crowd; he did not like the idea of using a back passageway. Said R.F.K.: "It's all right." So they went directly behind the speaker's platform through a gold curtain toward a serving kitchen (see diagram) that led to the press room. The Senator walked amid a clutch of aides, hotel employees and newsmen, with Ethel a few yards behind. This route took him through a swinging door and into the hot, malodorous, corridorlike chamber that was to be his place of execution...
...This Is It. From both ends of the serving kitchen, scores of people pressed in. All order had dissolved with the first shots ("It sounded like dry wood snapping," said Dick Tuck of the Kennedy staff). The sounds of revelry churned into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
...shooting came moments after the former Attorney General left an uproarious celebration of his primary victory over Senator Eugene McCarthy in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel. Flanked by relatives and aides, he was entering a small kitchen enroute to his suite to spend the rest of the night...
Committee members met yesterday morning in Trottenberg's University Hall office. Trottenberg said after the meeting that there is substantial risk that the new plan, if approved, would delay completion of the Mather-Dunster kitchen past the opening of the Fall 1969 semester...
Dunster residents had rejected two other suggestions tossed out by the ad hoc committee. One would have had temporary kitchen facilities established in the Dunster Junior Common Room and small dining room while remodeling began next January 1. The other would have had remodeling begin February 1, with students following the same eating arrangement now recommended to begin April 1 in the compromise plan...