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...long walk ended at an old canal lock a quarter of a mile farther along. A National Park Service sightseeing barge, drawn by two mules, awaited the hikers. They climbed aboard to ride the last five miles to Georgetown. Their triumphal entry into the city, however, was just beginning. As the barge sloshed down the canal, hundreds of men, women & children hustled along the banks exchanging greetings with the expedition. Other well-wishers called greetings from overhead bridges. The escorting fleet of canoes grew. Automobiles jammed up along a parallel roadway...
Karl Mundt's first act as chairman was to order the files in the Schine case put under lock & key. Then he and Arkansas' John McClellan, the committee's senior Democrat, hoping at least to move the brawl off the political street corner and into the controlled conditions of the rope-bound ring, set about finding a referee-a fair-minded lawyer with unassailable reputation to take Cohn's place as chief counsel. As the search went on, Joe McCarthy headed for Chicago...
...Margaret Sangree, head resident of Bertram Hall, said that the lock would probably be changed later in the week...
...Look, son, I know you gotta get back to Harvard, but we have lock you up until somebody gets down here to bail you out. It'll be fifty dollars...
...professional bondsman. Freddic Carbonne will help ya if anybody can. He only charges ten dollars. Lock him up, Al, put him in with that drunk, Sorry, kid, rules of the house, you know...