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Long after nightfall, it arrived in Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps...
...Washington now, the cortege wound its way past more crowds, through the nighttime capital to the burial ground...
...University of Minnesota 18 years ago, was a reporter for the Minnesota Daily. In those days, the most burning campus issue was not the draft; it was fraternity discrimination-both religious and racial. "We tried our best to be impartial," says Magnuson, "but of course the paper wound up flailing the Greeks...
...couple of minutes apiece to explain, like high school sophomores seeking class office, why they wanted to be President. Both began by dutifully presenting their credentials. 'Tve had the experience," said Bobby, evoking his service as Attorney General and member of the National Security Council. McCarthy, who wound up with a more substantial Who's Who entry, cited his 20 years in Congress and his service on committees that are concerned with the whole gamut of U.S. problems, from racial relations to foreign relations...
...from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went to work on Piper. For over five hours, they followed the crowbar's path, repairing damaged organs as they discovered them through two incisions in the Building Wrecker's abdomen and chest. Last week Piper was home recuperating from his wounds and planning to go back to work. Said one doctor, reflecting on the slim chances for surviving such a wound: "He's a tough little Irishman, or he wouldn't be here...