DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/11/66. Chicago Tribune headline and subhead:
MORE MAIL-FRAUD RAIDS IN SOUTH.
22 INDICTMENTS PENDING.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/14/66. Chicago Sun-Times headline and subhead:
KING ATTACKS FBI'S SOUTHERN MANDATE.
"KLAN TERROR--NOT MAIL-FRAUD--SHOULD BE PRIORITY".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/15/66. Los Angeles Times subhead:
KING INDICTS "GENOCIDAL" WAR IN VIETNAM.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12 / 18/66. Denver Post-Dispatch subhead:
RFK DENIES RUMORS OF PREZ'L BID.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/20/66. Boston Globe headline:
NIXON NON-COMMITTAL ON '68 WHITE HOUSE PLANS.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/21/66. Washington Post headline and subhead:
SCATHING INDICTMENT:.
FOREIGN JOURNALISTS ATTACK LBJ FOR.
CIVIL-RIGHTS-VIETNAM "DICHOTOMY".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/22/66. San Francisco Chronicle headline and subhead:
HOOVER ATTACKS KING IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
CALLS CIVIL-RIGHTS LEADER "DANGEROUS TYRANT".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/23/66. Las Vegas Sun headline and subhead:
HUGHES NEGOTIATORS SWARM STRIP.
HOTEL PURCHASES LOOM.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/26/66. Washington Post headline and subhead:
DOMESTIC STUDY GROUP VOICES OPINION:.
J. EDGAR HOOVER "OUTMODED".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 1/2/67. Los Angeles Examiner subhead:
CIVIL-RIGHTS FUND-RAISER.
TO DRAW STELLAR CROWD.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 1/3/67. Dallas Morning News headline:
JACK RUBY--DEAD OF CANCER.
101.
(Beverly Hills, 1/3/6 7)
Signs: Mau-Mau shit. Peace doves. Nigger hands clasped.
Said signs blitzed walls. Said walls ran high. The ballroom soared up. Said ballroom welcomed oreos--race-mixer deelites.
There's celebs and pols. There's spook matrons. There's Marty the K. There's Burl Ives. There's Banana Boat Belafonte.
Pete watched. Pete smoked. His tux fit tight. Otash watched. Otash smoked. His tux fit right.
Ballroom accoutrements--dais and lectern. Ballroom seats and ballroom fare. Steam trays leaking steam--chicken a Ia coon deelite.
Cops mingled. Their cheap suits stood out. Waiters roamed. Waiters schlepped trays. Waiters flogged deelites.
Pete worked the Fuck-lt Diet. Pete noshed meatballs. Pete noshed pate. Pete noshed pygmy deelites.
There's Mayor Sam Yorty. There's Governor Pat Brown. There's Bayard Rustin--he's tall and thin--dig that tartan tux. There's Sal Mineo--he's hovering--dig that swish lollapalooza.
There's Rita Hayworth. Who let her in? She vibes dipsomaniac.
Otash said, "Has it occurred to you that we stand out here?"
Pete lit a cigarette. "Once or twice."
"Rita looks soused. I had a two-second thing with her, about ten years ago. Redheads tend to age bad, Barb excepted."
Pete watched Rita. Rita saw Otash. Rita went ugh and stepped back.
He flew to Sparta. He spent Christmas. He shacked up with his wife. They made love. They fought. Barb ragged his "war enterprise."
Barb quit sniffing "H." Barb quit popping pills. Barb glowed non-Rita-like. Barb goosed his pulse. Barb wrung him out. Barb told him straight: I hate dope. I hate lounge work. I hate Vegas. I won't back down. I won't go back.
He regrouped. He compromised. He punted. He said I'll work in Milwaukee. I'll push white horse there. We'll live in Sparta full-time.
Barb howled. Barb said never.
They talked. They fought. They made love. He regrouped. He repunted. He recompromised. He said I'll split Vietnam. I'll dump Tiger Kamp on John Stanton. John to run it/Wayne to rotate/Mesplede to assist.
Barb tweaked him. Barb said you love Wayne. Barb said he hit me. Okay--he knows you--you win.