For the Record

Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the United States at 12:24 p.m., September 15. By 2:24 p.m. , one American (Marvin H. Merry, Scott Depot, W. Va. ) had been jailed, another manhandled (Robert Stevens, son of the former Secretary of the Army), a woman struck by the police. Their offense? Carrying skull and crossbone flags and black balloons on a Washington street. Senators Dodd, Bridges, Douglas, Representatives Judd, McCormack immediately protested “this suppression of the right of free expression.” (The ACLU will provide counsel for the man who was jailed.)… One man was booted off Capitol Hill grounds even before Mr. K. arrived, for the offense of wearing a black arm band. (The D.C. police have the technical authority to prescribe the proper uniform on federal grounds.)…

Seriously alarmed, officials are applying pressure to stop the protests…. Plans for a plane to fly over Manhattan during K’s visit with protest streamer fell through. The pilot was scared off by his lawyer who reported back, after calling the CAA, that if he went ahead, he might have trouble at license-renewal time…. Pasadena, after first approving use of Rose Bowl for International Council of Christian Churches rally, later said no (“the meeting is not in the best interests of the city of Pasadena”)…. The American Dental Association, to be sure, stood firm when asked to make way for Mr. K. at the Waldorf-Astoria, but the Police Sergeants Benevolent Association, which had planned its annual dance at the W-A that night, bowed out. (As it turned out, most of the sergeants were on duty anyway, guarding Nikita.)

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Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the United States at 12:24 p.m., September 15. By 2:24 p.m. , one American (Marvin H. Merry, Scott Depot, W. Va. ) had been jailed, another manhandled (Robert Stevens, son of the former Secretary of the Army), a woman struck by the police. Their offense? Carrying skull and crossbone flags and black balloons on a Washington street. Senators Dodd, Bridges, Douglas, Representatives Judd, McCormack immediately protested “this suppression of the right of free expression.” (The ACLU will provide counsel for the man who was jailed.)… One man was booted off Capitol Hill grounds even before Mr. K. arrived, for the offense of wearing a black arm band. (The D.C. police have the technical authority to prescribe the proper uniform on federal grounds.)…

Seriously alarmed, officials are applying pressure to stop the protests…. Plans for a plane to fly over Manhattan during K’s visit with protest streamer fell through. The pilot was scared off by his lawyer who reported back, after calling the CAA, that if he went ahead, he might have trouble at license-renewal time…. Pasadena, after first approving use of Rose Bowl for International Council of Christian Churches rally, later said no (“the meeting is not in the best interests of the city of Pasadena”)…. The American Dental Association, to be sure, stood firm when asked to make way for Mr. K. at the Waldorf-Astoria, but the Police Sergeants Benevolent Association, which had planned its annual dance at the W-A that night, bowed out. (As it turned out, most of the sergeants were on duty anyway, guarding Nikita.)