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The Music ts Different by Jimmy Breslin. __— —s came slowly. It hung over &re—Patt River tike a seagull, then inched across the sky. There were 15 of them waiting for the plane, the Cerolinc, to land at La Guardia Field. They held clipboards and mimeogr sheets with schedules and specches for Robert Fo Kennedy_and they were there because they were working for him, but they stood in front of the terminal in the Saturday afternoon emptiness and they talked, as they always do, about another Fall. “Ohio,” one of them was saying. “I never saw crowds like that. When we got to Columbus the last night we were therc, the candidate sat down in the hotel room and said, ‘Well, this docs it. We've won Ohio.’ Hell, it was the first state we lost.” “The place [I'll always remember is Waterbury,” one of them, with sunglasses, said. “We got there late and by that time everybody was drunk. Ribicoff was the only one with legs under him. They had a cop sted in front of the room at the hotel. Boy, this was Ae chae of a lifetime. He was guarding Kennedy. The hadge was polished and the uniform pressed. The works. He also.was blind from throwing down doubles while he was waiting. When we got off the elevator the cop was sound asleep on a chair in front of the room. The candidate walked up and grabbed him. ‘How alr you?’ he said. The cop woke up and fell off the chair. ‘Get him out of hkcah,’ the candidate said.” They all laughed. Then the plane, a white Convair, dropped down behind the motels on the parkway. It landed on a runway on the far side of the field, came out from behind a hangar and taxied up to the gate. An aluminum staitcase dropped out of the side of the ay oé plane and Robert Kennedy came out of the door an ilawn the steps” He had on a gray glen plaid suit. His left hand was stuck into the jacket pocket. The wind blew at his uncombed hair. “How air you?” he said to a man who had come up to the steps. Kennedy walked through them, head down, listen- ing while an aid told him something, and he went out and got into a white convertible, which was parked at the curb in the head of a motorcade. He was going to Manhattan, to try and get people to vote for him so he could be a United States Senator, and the people getting into the cars were working for him so he could be a Scnator, but when they talk it is of another Fall t arene they look at him they think of anothernmt, _ « ~. a _ Tbis0.: é_ mont | oach ' - asper_ Callahan Conrad _evans Gale osen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes — Gandy The Washington Post aff Times Herald The Washington Daily News — uw. The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune Lt New York Joutnal-Ameritcan . New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times ee . too be eee Ts all Street Journal . i e The National Observer epimers 14 OCT 28 {GPecrle's world ee ol ed ——ocT191964 eee