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LAS ALAS te eae tc ey 7 ere ‘_@ ).@ 68 Oe “T ney is ready now,” the guy was shouting : cnnedy turned and shook hands with Mit toach aml began running across the ficld to the place he had to he at. The heads came out of the huddle and at ister ie rns Hith fleor apartment. in the U.N, Towers, Kermedy sat with his shirt sticking out of his pants and a vodka-on-the-rocks in his hands. “VWeren't they goud?” he was saying. “That boy from Poland. I can't. get over him. Here only three years and he ean play so well, He has all these mar- yelons things in front of him. Why didn't you stay there with him? [ think what he's doing is a Tot more interesting than what I'm doing or the Democratic party is duing or something like that. Only three years from Poland. Poland! Now he's here. He can have all these things. | think it’s terrific.” 7 Ile turned to Graves, whe was standing: with a ron he ee ‘ch Hel th re playing Speday “The coach told me ther we ; ‘ . we can fit the game into the schedule, |b want mere PP We Pan at to see the boy play,” Kennedy said to Earl Graves. Waves nodded. —_—_— St. Francis Prep played against Chaminade High School on Sunday at a place called Boys High Fictd, . Beaw.~L1.-. DB Genen Lietad 2 D5 en wl an be which is in Broo h, Richie SeaTS KICKS a wo-yara ficld goal and then was seen running that play which seems to be an inside reverse. Ife slammed through, was hit squarely hy a linebacker and immediately spun and came into another one leading with his side, not his whole body, and those peasant legs kept kicking and trying to get into rhythm and suddenly they were all motion and he was free of hands and he raeed nine yards into the end zone. I¢ is going to be a big foot- ball player at a college in a couple of years. tobby Kennedy did not make the game. At one point in his schedule that Sutviay he started to ask about it and they told him it would take 45 minutes to get te the ficld and they didivt have the time Sire said all right and, immersed in work, forgot about it. en the game was over on Sunday, ithe St, Francis kids crowded into a narrow locker room that had a low cement cciling. They had won eXsily. The kids grabbed the doors of the green metal lockers anc began to hang them in rhythm. “We're number one,” they chanted. They stopped chanting and broke into a cheer when O'Connor, the coach, walked in. O'Connor was holding the game hall over his head. “Senator Kennedy,” the kids yelled. “The ball foes to Scnator Kennedy.” . _ They yelled it loud. Young faces, streaked. with mud from 2 game, young faces of boys £6 and 17 and 18 The same young faces that are all over the country and they don't want te know anvthing about old men ar young ald nen. The only name they know in politics is Robert Kennedy, the presideut’s brother, Young faces, aml some of them will be 2! in 1968 and all of them will be 21 in 1972 and this is not a story about pOrties- is a story about simple arithmetic.e_2-_» — Fe ge a) msg t 5 eal Saat ee cet) ™ RAD Atal 3