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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next stop was to be the press room. For once, Kennedy did not plunge through the crush to reach the Embassy 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...
...ninth-floor operating room. Anesthesiologist Earle C. Skinner saw to it that the positive-pressure machine, the EKG monitor and the transfusions kept going during the transfer. There was such a crowd in the fifth-floor hall?relatives, aides, hospital personnel?that Kennedy could not be wheeled to the main elevator. Instead, he had to be wheeled to an elevator that did not go all the way up and be transferred to the main elevator at another floor...
Shells from Isis and Mosley Boat Clubs (Oxford and Cambridge) are expected to be Harvard's main challengers for the Thames...
...lightweight varsity's main difficulty this year has been precisely the opposite of their heavyweight counterparts...
These stock explanations for the Center's non-involvement are all exaggerated but all partly true. The Center's main function is permissive support of basic research. On a limited scale, it also operates on a contract basis to supply technical assistance to public agencies. What it doesn't do is to initiate the kind of innovative social experimentation that radical and semi-radical activsts would like to see implemented in the ghetto...