Word: rioting
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...suspense. But visions of Chicago in 1968 are still fresh, and many editors feel that more staff may actually be needed for the G.O.P. meeting, which is likely to attract more protesters and carry a higher potential for violence. As a precaution, the Washington Star will have such riot gear as hard hats and gas masks available for its staff at both conventions...
...crowd quickly scattered, although elements of it regrouped farther west and began marching down Quincy St. toward Harvard Square, declaring that their intention was to "trash Harvard Trust and other banks." But just as they reached Mass Ave. several Cambridge police cars and a bus filled with over 50 riot-equipped police pulled into the intersection and the 200 marchers were split in half...
...days immediately preceding the action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables quarreled divisively. After sparing for several hours with riot-equipped police in front of the building, the marchers surged toward the police lines and 200 were carted away. The action was viewed as a failure by almost everyone involved...
Most of the time, though, euphoria seemed to prevail. One convert from the drug world, Alaskan Ken Davenport, 24, compared the Dallas scene with the rock riot at Altamont: "There you didn't know if somebody was going to knife you. Here it's full of love." In Dallas' nightclub district, barflies were amazed to find the young evangelists offering them Bright's mustard-yellow pamphlets. A policeman working amid the crowds at the Cotton Bowl said in bewilderment, "I must have gotten bumped 3,000 times, and every time the person said 'Pardon...
...sidewalk in front of the Sears on Telegraph Avenue for 22 hours in order to buy tickets for the concert. "I missed the Stones in '65, when they came through my home town in New York. They only did one song because everybody went bananas and started a riot. I missed 'em again in '69, when I was in college, but this time...