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In article <7APR199208114521@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>The Park Police in Washington continue their tradition of
>inflating their official estimates of crowd size at protest
>demonstrations. They estimated 500,000 for Sunday's abortion
>rights march. (I support the objectives of that protest, by
>the way.) By comparison, the resident population of D.C. is
>625,000.
>
>I spent about an hour and a half there and I would estimate
>70,000 seated on the Mall. After about 3 PM the crowd didn't
>get any larger, and it was easy to see that people were walking
>away at about the same rate they were marching in. If this throughput
>continued for two hours, that would be another 36,000 to 60,000.
>Taking the higher figure, I come up with 130,000. 

Just curious... how did you arrive at this estimate? As a good comparison,
RFK stadium holds 70,000 people.  I think one can safely say there were
a HELL of a lot more people on the mall than you could fit in RFK stadium.
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