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...leftists and solidifying De Gaulle's opponents. It increased the pressures on De Gaulle for reform, since many of his new supporters voted for him in the expectation that he would live up to his promises to bring about sweeping changes in France's archaic institutions. Stricken by inflationary wage settlements, France's economy has been seriously weakened; and De Gaulle has been forced to resort to drastic measures to protect its ailing industries (see BUSINESS). The country has recently lost $1 billion in foreign exchange. Unemployment is rising, and some people in Paris are already saying...
...swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...
There is a grim possibility that yet another candidate will become a target. What to do? Stop crowd contact, use sealed cars, exploit TV to the exclusion of almost every other campaign tactic? In the Los Angeles aftermath, a stricken Eugene McCarthy pondered: "Maybe we should do it in a different way. Maybe we should have the English system of having the Cabinet choose the President. There must be some other way." But most politicians-including highly vulnerable Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Hubert Humphrey and John Lindsay-emphatically veto such suggestions. If a candidate cannot mingle with crowds, said Rockefeller...
Rustin's economic charter called for a million new public-service jobs for the poverty-stricken, passage of an omnibus housing bill, extension to farm workers of labor bargaining rights, more funds for welfare budgets and emergency food programs for the poor. Abernathy's fiery new demonstration director, Hosea Williams, sneered that Rustin's manifesto was an unauthorized "bunch of foolishness." Rustin asked for Abernathy's support. It was not forthcoming, and he quit. Abernathy had already named a replacement, and Rustin's departure left Resurrection City to ranters...
...rang out, Robert Kennedy died. "The family were right around him," said Cuneo. "They'd all been at his bedside for hours. Ethel was on one side of the Senator, Ted was on the other." Kennedy never regained consciousness. "It wasn't a question of sinking," reported his grief-stricken press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz. "It was a question of not rising...