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...happened. In the hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows two blocks away in deserted streets...
...Newton and its infamous Heartbreak Hill, a wickedly long climb six miles from the finish line in Boston, they were cheered on by more than 500,000 spectators lining the route. Children darted into the street offering slices of oranges and cups of Gatorade; one homeowner charitably placed his lawn sprinkler in the middle of the road to cool the runners as they panted by in the unseasonable 73° heat...
Gill reportedly shoved a Harvard policeman out of the way, pushed open the gates, and led the crowd onto the wide expanse of lawn in front of the residence...
GILL APPEARS to have been a whirlwind of activity during those years. She ran for City Council in 1969, and appeared before it often to testify about Cambridge housing conditions. She once slept out on the City Hall lawn as part of her continuing protest...
...this spring there is a lush lawn of Kentucky-31 fescue instead of the old Merion bluegrass. The magnolias and the cherry trees have sprinkled their delicate petals on the ground like tinted snow. The redbuds, crab trees, azaleas, tulips and hyacinths are at their peak. For the moment anyway, for a President who resides in the center of it all, the world is sweet and beautiful and promising. And it already has the Nixon thumbprint. Right straight out the window, down the knoll and across the drive, as the President's eye goes, there is the Sequoia gigantca...