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...frenzy of picture-taking by the press and by Harvard officials, a crowd of curious onlookers kept watch over the scene. Some of the more hostile of their number muttered or ran up to the windows to scream about "what these women need." Other sympathetic men automatically sat vigil in case of a bust, offering to assist in protecting the building. But the women inside said no; they had taken the building, made it habitable, and should they decide to defend it, they would do it themselves...
...ever met," President Nixon called the families of the captured and the missing. "When others called on us to settle on any terms, you had the courage to stand for the right kind of peace. Nothing means more to me at this moment than the fact that your long vigil is coming...
...lives in a suburb of Baltimore with her two children, Lysa, 13, and Page, six, listened with disbelief to the President's message. "Im numb," she said, "just numb. I'm still trying to believe it." Lysa, hearing the President say it had been a long vigil, turned and said to her mother: "It has been a long vigil." Last Saturday, the family got word that Sgt. First Class Donald Rander was alive. They had not heard from him since he was captured on Feb. 1, 1968. His name was on one of the first lists...
...night; it would get colder later. More than 11,000 people attended the concert, four-fifth's of whom listened to the music through loudspeakers outside of the Cathedral. The concert was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. At three o'clock that day, the first arrival began his afternoon vigil. Four and one-half hours, eleven postcards and a finished journal later, he moved into the Cathedral, along with three thousand others...
Convinced that other gunmen were still on the roof, police kept their vigil throughout the night and the next morning. When they finally raided the rooftop, they found just the body of the youth they had shot down 16 hours earlier. A thorough room-by-room search of the motel failed to turn up any other snipers. Said Police Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso: "Either there was only one, or another got away. The speculation might run the gamut all the way from negligence on the part of police to a superbrain on the part of the sniper...