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...titled Western Development Division and sent to Inglewood, Calif., in 1954. He set up shop in three buildings of a Roman Catholic parochial school that had been abandoned because they were not modern. The staff always wore civvies, shuttled in and out of a side door, lunched at a sidewalk hot-dog stand dubbed "the officers' club." Inglewood neighbors stared and wondered. "I never had to take so much evasive action," recalls Schriever...
...marchers kept their promise to be orderly and walked double file on the sidewalk, singing "We Shall Overcome" and "We Shall Not Be Moved" all the way to the post office. CRCC had described their route to the Cambridge Police ahead of time, and it was dotted with policemen, in and out of their cars...
...approaching 90° with 90% humidity. With a Vietnamese plainclothes bodyguard, he climbs into the back seat of a Checker Marathon sedan. The car rolls past barbed-wire stanchions, stops 15 minutes later in front of the ugly U.S. Embassy building at 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard. There, barricades block sidewalk passersby, while barbed wire funnels visitors past South Vietnamese soldiers into a lobby guarded by U.S. Marines...
Tippy wears a decaying fur coat that all but sweeps the sidewalk behind her, and her hair hangs down so thoroughly over her eyes that she appears to be the youngest daughter of a woolly mammoth. Actually, her father is a man named Gordon Walker, who is an engineer with Allied Chemical Corp. in Manhattan. He lives in Rye, N.Y., and sends Tippy to the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where she clings giddily to a B average and writes for the literary magazine, Panache...
...Reuben Goodman '35, a lawyer who is advising CRCC, the parade permit could be denied legally only in case of a "mechanical conflict" such as a potential traffic jam. CRCC plans a march from the Common to the Central Square Post Office, but expects to confine demonstrators to the sidewalk...