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...This Is It. From both ends of the serving kitchen, scores of people pressed in. All order had dissolved with the first shots ("It sounded like dry wood snapping," said Dick Tuck of the Kennedy staff). The sounds of revelry churned into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
Finally she got to Bobby. She knelt over him, whispering. His lips moved. She rose and tried to wave back the crush. Dick Tuck blew a whistle. The crowd began to give way. Someone clamped an ice pack to Kennedy's bleeding head, and someone else made a pillow of a suit jacket. His blue and white striped tie was off, his shirt open, the rosary clutched to his hairy chest. An aide took off his shoes...
Hardest-hitting of all his speeches was a talk in Minneapolis before the traditionally pro-Democratic National Farmers Union. Departing from his text, he spent 20 minutes defending his position both against the "get-it-over-with-quickly" advocates and those who would "tuck our tail and violate our commitments"-but principally the latter. "Most of these people don't say, 'Cut and run,'" he declared. "They don't say 'Pull out.' They say that they want to do less than we are doing. But we are not doing enough...
Colleagues say that it was a great comfort to know that Professor Owen was here; students remember his constant efforts to build their self-confidence. His own words on the once-new House system gives a better glimpse of his nature: "One could almost imagine tutors being assigned to tuck the boys in at ten o'clock. (In a Master's weaker moments he sometimes regrets that this spectre never materialized...
...place and can tilt itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways-useful for settling gently on an underwater slope. Deep Quest's two manipulator arms can each grasp as much as 500 Ibs. of material at a time off the ocean floor and tuck it into two squirrel-cheek spaces on either side of the craft...