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Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's proposed "cooling-off period" was not a popular idea among those involved in the Freedom Rider movement, CORE spokesmen told a crowd of 300 in the Boston Common yesterday...
Bombed Bus. "I could tell the difference when we crossed the state line into Alabama." recalls Negro Freedom Rider Charles Person, 18. "The atmosphere was tense." Outside Anniston, the first stop in Alabama, whites who had been pursuing in cars caught up with the Freedom Riders. An incendiary bomb was hurled through a broken window, setting the bus afire. "The bus soon filled with black, acrid smoke," recalls Freedom Rider Bigelow. "We had to get out somehow-there was no chance at all of surviving inside." The waiting toughs beat up some of the Freedom Riders who emerged first...
...gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH c, ran above an early story about an opera star, who collapsed onstage and died in the wings). The paper is still so accurately aimed at Patterson's hand-picked target-the Manhattan subway rider-that News circulation plummets 300,000 or so on holidays, when the straphangers stay home...
...pilots who handle these hardy planes are called "rough riders." Says Rough Rider Air Force Major John J. Knight, an F106 pilot: "Every time I approach a storm I wonder how rough this one is going to be. You know it is going to be rough, but you don't know how rough. And once you're inside you're so busy you can't think of anything else. You don't horse the controls around. You have to believe your instruments. In those things you can't fly by the seat of your...
Desperately, Gilbert sawed on the reins and slashed with his whip. But Plenty Papaya bolted back to the inside. Just before hitting the barrier, horse and rider parted company. The railbirds were watching the front runners, and no one saw what happened next. But an aluminum-shod hoof or the concrete base of a rail post shattered the jockey's skull. Roy Gilbert died on the way to a hospital...