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...what he heard and saw. The crowds were bigger and more enthusiastic than he expected, bolstering his hopes for carrying Texas in November (against any Democrat except Texas' own Lyndon Johnson) and the Midwest farm states despite farmer discontent. In Fargo, N. Dak., upward of 3,000 cheering, placard-waving Dakotans greeted him at the airport-and, incidentally, jammed up the departure of Democrat Jack Kennedy, in town to lend a hand in the special senatorial election (he was greeted by 200). Nixon found another crowd, complete with brass band and Fourth of July sparklers, awaiting him in front...
...after the summit blowup, to the effect that the President might have saved the summit had he apologized to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident. Rolling wearily into Denver one night last week, Kennedy was met at the airport by a teen-aged girl with a Kennedy-for-President placard and a perplexed expression on her face. "Why," she asked, "did you say that President Eisenhower should apologize to Khrushchev?" Startled, Kennedy muttered that he had not meant that the U.S. should "apologize," only that it should have expressed "diplomatic regrets." Jack Kennedy was on the defensive...
...Little Rock and Atlanta, placard-carrying students picketed downtown department stores, urging a boycott until lunch counters are open to both whites and Negroes...
Time and again Khrushchev's motorcade of black, closed-top Cadillacs ran between silent crowds at a 35-m.p.h. clip. His route was patrolled-sidewalks, roofs, windows, gratings, manhole covers-by 3,300 blue-uniformed police and plainclothesmen. Here and there, Ukrainian and Hungarian pickets waved placards-WELCOME MURDERER, and GO TO THE MOON, LEAVE NEW YORK FOR-US but the police had even ordered the pickets not to carry placard poles...
...anyway before the brooding statue of Liberator Jose Marti in Plaza Civica. Motorcycle cops led off in new white crash helmets, followed by marines in maroon berets, MPs in black berets, and more than 206,000 laborers. "Fidel,'when you get time, remember the chauffeurs," pleaded one giant placard. But the Reds knew Castro's new mood; pro-Communist sloganeering was conspicuously missing...