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...started on Tremont Street by the Common. I remembered that warm fall day 17 months ago when we had all come to heckle George Wallace, Fond memories. Today, the crowd was strongly in support of the proceedings, and people applauded with cuthusiasm as the Boston police, flag-wavers from Dedham, bands, and Young Americans for Freedom strutted up Tremont toward Government Center...
...DIDN'T KNOW whether to be amused or depressed. I tend now to look at the whole thing as a big joke because I find it more enjoyable, and because I hate to contemplate sad realities. So I go to Tremont Street and then to Government Center to yuk it up for three solid hours, but I can't help thinking meanwhile that no matter how hard I laugh, these people are determining our pollicies around the world. They're putting the punch in Nixon's words. They're the reason Nixon can watch a football game and ignore...
Maybe we needed kazoos, ten thousand blood curdling kazooers Marching down Tremont...
...into Government Center. where there were two speeches which seemed to be about absolutely nothing. It didn't make any difference. The people who had come to march to Government Center then split on the Government Center subway, and the people who had come to throw rocks headed up Tremont again to throw rocks. I saw about five thrown... mostly at bank windows along the way. The police very wisely did nothing at all. If they had, something might have happened-a cop killed, cut off from others, mauled by twenty or thirty people. And the something and something else...
...Tremont Street, at the corner of Tremont and Park, all the people who didn't want to go home yet were massing. An occasional rock was tossed at the "Boston Five" and "Waldorfs." There were more police here, they occupied about half of Tremont Street, and were massed in diagonal lines. There was a lot of ?aunting and spitting, but I didn't see anyone at that point actually assault a cop. But people were getting really worked up, swearing pigs-eat-shit over and over at those fat somehow-unreacting faces. One cop near me kept muttering "Keep...