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...President's advance team, understandably, has been very careful about where Reagan will appear publicly throughout the trip. As one French political adviser put it: "The Americans are super security conscious-ooh-la-la-and they are not about to let him dive into a crowd to shake hands...
...taken the law into his own hands and led a daring raid on court-protected property. Nonetheless, when he was sprung from jail on a temporary pass last week to testify in Washington on ways that farmers can be hurt by bankruptcy laws, Senators and Congressmen crowded around to shake his hand. To farmers in the dusty "bootheel" area of southeastern Missouri, and indeed to farmers all over the country, he is a hero, fighting a battle for the oppressed against unjust law. And what for? Soybeans...
...musical trajectory is astonishing. The three-hour show, The Beatles at the Beeb, begins with Hippie Hippie Shake, a good bar-band rave-up, and ends three years later with the jet-stream harmonics of Ticket to Ride. That's a little like getting into outer space before everyone is certain you have even left the ground...
...delegates or just to talk with constituents. Like many other candidates, Scott Harshbarger, running for Middlesex County district attorny, was officially on the floor as a Sargent at Arms though he spent less time clearing the aisles than he did cluttering them with constituents whose hands he wanted to shake. Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci had a Page's tag around his neck but spent the afternoon chatting about conventions of years past--his first was in 1936--and trying to gainer votes for his son Peter, running for the state legislature...
...grass-roots Communism where dirt-poor farm laborers seized estates in the wake of the 1974 revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped over their shoulders. Security broke down completely. John Paul was engulfed in a sea of peasants...