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Usually this tension is ignored or alone in Mississippi. As he drives, his eyes constantly flit to the rear view mirror and he habitually notes the make and color of every car he sees, immersed in the work of the moment. Often it rises to the surface in a stupid argument with a fellow worker. And sometimes workers express it to each other, because they all feel it, "By accident I crossed into Tennessee today. Man, did it feel good up there...
...hand by then. They cleared a narrow path through the mass, ordered the gates opened. Mueller inched forward. Men in the crowd were pressed tight between the slowly moving truck and a fence. Suddenly, two men-Melvin Cummings, 43, and Howard Falk, 64 -fell beneath the truck's rear wheels. Both were killed...
...fired 17 times-and 17 enemy soldiers died. Finally, German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked all eight off, firing from rear to front-just as he had often potted a flock of wild turkeys back home...
...couple of hours later, Lyndon strode across the lawn again, stopped at a White House limousine that had been parked at the rear entrance, unnoticed by newsmen, for nearly half an hour. Inside sat Hubert Humphrey and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, both summoned down from Atlantic City. Dodd, an old friend of the President's (he had backed him for the top spot in '60), was there partly to maintain the suspense over the vice-presidency and partly to get some visibility for his own campaign for reelection. In the car, Humphrey was sound asleep. Lyndon...
...Little Stars." As it turned out, Bobby was the central figure of the most emotional occasion of the convention. It took place when he stepped up to the convention rostrum to introduce the J.F.K. film, A Thousand Days. As Bobby stood there, a small, grim figure, delegates in the rear of the hall stood up, cheering. Within seconds, the ovation surged all over the huge hall. Bobby tried several times to talk. But every time he said "Mr. Chairman," the applause grew louder. Finally Bobby smiled hesitantly, looked down, bit his lip. The demonstration, entirely spontaneous, lasted for 13 minutes...