The People: Manhattan Serenade

Opposition is usually more dramatic and emotional than support. For that reason, last week's "Support Our Men in Viet Nam" parade in Manhattan was given little chance of matching the massive April 15 antiwar rallies that drew 125,000 in New York and 55,000 in San Francisco. But it came close. Down sun-dappled Fifth Avenue marched Legionnaires and longshoremen, Boy Scouts and Medal of Honor winners, Kiwanians and Knights of Columbus, Iroquois Indians, exiles from Communist nations and a slew of swinging bands. (A conspicuous absentee: Mayor John Lindsay.) The parade drew an...

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