Peace marchers who started out walking south met a wall of police and turned northward into the plaza containing Buckingham Fountain, then looped around to head south again, avoiding the cops. So the hemmed-in cops threw tear-gas canisters across the street at the apex of the marchers’ U-turn—which was the sidewalk in front of the building that billed itself as “the world’s largest and friendliest hotel.” GRANT PARK, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, the chyron now reads, and a woman’s voice says, “The kids are still marching, it looks like a whole gathering of people with terrible colds”; and then Brinkley
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