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...photographer flashed away at one obliging couple who had shared a blanket for the night. Others, snoring in sleeping bags or just passed out in a phone booth or on a dead escalator, appeared oblivious to the mass that began to gather around them...
...Fromme added to the modern chain of Bremer, Ray, Sirhan, Oswald?all tormented Americans driven to try to kill a public figure. It is a chain with links in U.S. life that reach all the way back to Richard Lawrence, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth, who did kill Abraham Lincoln, the first President to be assassinated. Inevitably, the question arises: Is there something wrong with American society? Why does America seem to have so many kooks willing to kill to exorcise some private demon...
...experts agree that an assault on the President gives such a person the feeling of identity he has lacked and a sense of importance akin to that of the man he kills. The one who pulls down the Colossus of Rhodes will always go down in history, John Wilkes Booth is said to have told a friend. And today, he or she can achieve instant recognition. Says University of New Hampshire Professor Stuart Palmer: "You can become a TV star or an assassin," adding that for some people, "becoming an assassin, known to everyone by the media, is certainly pretty...
...second-year coach moved co-captain Ralph Booth from fullback to right half, Mark Zimering from forward to center half, and turned Harold Martin into a fullback even though he had never played that position before. Ford then added freshman center Mat Bowyer, freshman right winger Dave Eaton and left winger Mike Lohrer to the forward line, threw in goalie Fred Herold and had himself a winning combination...
...Marilyn Booth 77 is presently on leave...