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...Whittier, Calif...
Spite-shell and round-shot, grape and canister, Up they climbed without rail or banister.... which sounds like a Thurber parody of bad Whittier...
...disturbance began at the end of a rally sponsored by the Chicano Moratorium Committee attended by 5000 people. About 1000 demonstrators marched to a police substation at the end of the rally but were dispersed after a few minutes. An hour later, looting began along Whittier Boulevard, six blocks from the substation...
...missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped found a men's social club called the Orthogonians-"a no-necked and merry crew," Classmate Lois Elliott Wilams remembers. Their motto was "4 B's -beans, brains, brawn and bowels...
Nixon took dancing lessons to please his steady college date, Ola Florence: one night he appeared at her house, announced that he could dance and immediately proved it. Says Ola Florence: "He was smart and sort of set apart. I think he was unsure of himself, deep down." Another Whittier girl remembers: "He didn't know how to be personable or sexy with girls, He didn't seem to have a sense of fun. I felt a kind of amused affection for him, like, 'Oh. Dick, come off it.'" However, Nixon really let go the night...