JET-AGE presidential candidates think nothing of dropping in on five different states in a single day. Reporters trying to keep up with them can get lost in a tangle of datelines. "Did he say that in Reno or Redwood City? Did he really make a speech in Manhattan, Kansas?" Files often get delayed in small-town telegraph offices.
All of which meant late nights at the office for Associate Editor Laurence Barrett as he grappled with the task of writing a cover story on fast-moving Bobby Kennedy. Barrett knew just what the reporters were up...
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