Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost midnight as a Denver attorney and two physicians drove home from an outdoor concert in nearby Red Rocks Park. Suddenly, the car's headlights flashed across a hole in the earth at the edge of the road, and the lawyer blinked with astonishment. From the dark hole protruded the legs of a woman. "That woman needs help," he cried, stopping the car. "Drive on," urged the doctors. "We can't afford to get mixed up in this and then get sued for malpractice later." They drove...
Several townies invaded a large College rock-and-roll dance at the Odd Fellows Hall near Porter Square at midnight Saturday, the result of which was a lively brawl in which a group of Yalies and Harvard men became quite violent. The Yale student was arrested on charges of disturbance of the peace and assault and battery; the Harvard man just disturbed the peace. They were out on bail Sunday. Four people were taken to Stillman or the Cambridge City Hospital for treatment...
...Bobby's house. Jack Kennedy checked in a few more times to read the reports. His mother came down from the big house to see him. By midnight, the jubilation of local Democratic staffers had subsided somewhat as they realized that the race was still undecided. At a TV set in the early hours of the morning, Kennedy watched Richard Nixon's address to campaign workers in Los Angeles (see below), decided to follow the Vice President's lead by going to bed without delivering any public speech...
...best I can and now I stand." In that spirit of fatalism-or resignation-Nixon flew home to California on election eve to await the people's judgment, bone-tired after a grueling campaign that had taken him 65,000 miles and into all 50 states. After a midnight rally and parade in Los Angeles, Nixon and wife Pat turned in at the Royal Suite of the Ambassador Hotel, rose after only two hours' sleep for an 18-mile drive to home-town Whittier -and the day of reckoning...
...Romero, a greying panther stalking among the dejected at Nixon headquarters. In a poignant cliché from Washington, ABC showed rows of empty chairs at Republican National Headquarters. Republican National Committee Chairman Thruston B. Morton made appearances on both NBC and CBS, recklessly and gloriously told the U.S. at midnight that the Republicans really had it in the Western...