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...that sense of purpose." It was in this spirit that the Justice Department sent Seigenthaler to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961 to protect the freedom riders, who were protesting segregation in the south. While trying to save three women riders from a "mob attack" he was hit with an iron pipe and knocked unconscious...
...Haldeman and I met with Nixon in his hideaway in the Executive Office Building. The President was in good form, calm and analytical. The only symptom of his excitement was that instead of slouching in an easy chair as usual, he was pacing up and down, gesticulating with a pipe on which he was occasionally puffing, something I had never previously seen him do. On one level he was playing MacArthur. On another he was steeling himself for a decision on which his political future would depend...
...Egyptian leader and his wife Jehan, accompanied by their 18-year-old daughter, also named Jehan, charmed their Israeli hosts. Sadat, wearing a blue pin-stripe suit and puffing on a pipe, seemed relaxed and confident at a press conference with Begin on the lawn of the Dan Carmel Hotel...
...hamburger joint in Tulsa last February, a man in his mid-20s sat down, ordered a Coke, and then pulled out a pipe wrench and began beating the customer next to him. After that he jumped on the counter, shouting "Now you know I mean business!" and demanded the money in the cash register. He got it - $200 - and vanished, leaving behind stunned customers and a bloody victim...
...tumble out into the hallway two doors down from the senior tutor's apartment. The man enters the party. A panorama of naked wolves raise their hungry and wondrous eyes to him. It is dark and they are all seated on the floor, forming a circle and passing the pipe with an ambience of mysterious ritual. They toke and laugh and smile nervously as they apply their peripheral vision; some just roll back their eyes beneath closing eyelids and fall back on the floor with only the ceiling to reckon. Little Joe and his girlfriend preside over the ritual sitting...