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Nothing daunted, she hopped aboard the plane for Paris. But it was not so easy. First, she discovered, there was no central purchasing agency. "Each policeman had bought his own cape," she says. And when she approached them directly in her faltering French, most Paris flics simply laughed in her face. "I felt foolish, so I flew right home," confesses Mrs. Barry. But once there, she was met with a barrage of accusations. "Everyone-my husband and my friends-accused me of giving up," she says. And so back she flew to Paris, determined to lick the problem...
First off, she took to the streets, distributing cards printed with her name and hotel address to every policeman she saw. She also made a tour of precinct stations, explaining to all who would listen that she would pay $10 to $15 for each cape delivered to her hotel. When she caught wind of an anti-American rally outside the U.S. embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch...
...snapped photos of everyone in sight. Police had replaced the hallways' dreary lights with new, high-powered bulbs to accommodate the cameramen. One of the main protesters was a balding but erect Soviet general in his 60s who circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union. "I shed blood for this country...
Dean Watson explained that students would still be in charge of the running of mixers. "No policeman or caretaker will check bursar cards," he said. "We're going to work out final details on this problem with the HUC," he said...
...From a policeman's point of view, the situation could hardly be worse. The decaying Amphitheater will be hard enough for delegates to get to without the harrassment of demonstrators. If protestors want to make things uncomfortable, the police will be hard pressed to stop them...