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Such incidents were bad enough, but perhaps even worse was a 48-hour disruption of construction at the Cape Kennedy (nee Canaveral) space complex, where 3,500 workers refused to cross picket lines set up by the strikers. The railroad has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to haul heavy building materials to the cape. As a result of the picketing, 30 projects worth $200 million were closed down, including construction of the site where the Saturn rocket moon shot will be assembled...
...Pickets marched at both locations, carrying signs reading "Cars or People," "Save the Charles for Our Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...
...stopped at the white cells. "This trash keeps it up, you go ahead and do what you got to do," one said meaningfully to my cellmates. On the Negro side, I could hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...
...large private firms are worse; although most of the department stores now employ Negroes in "high visibility" positions (since Negroes make up so much of the buying market, this is not unsound policy), many industries still refuse to budge. Julius Hobson, the President of Washington CORE, explains that "we picket a company and they take their one Negro out of the stockroom and put him on display to show that they're integrated. Then the pickets leave and he goes back into the stockroom...
Flying on to Los Angeles, Rocky again had a disappointing reception. The marching band on hand at the airport didn't march. The drum majorettes seemed to have the dropsy. Picket signs advised, "This is Goldwater Country" and "Go Home Rocky." Gamely, Rocky repeated his attacks on the Kennedy Administration and was roundly applauded for his efforts. But so far as the G.O.P. was concerned, he admitted that for him "the title of underdog is the right...