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By JON GLAZIER and KATHLEEN WILLIAMSON About 400 Rice students, almost 20% of the undergraduate population, gathered Friday evening in the quadrangle to demonstrate either for or against 'GOP Presidential candidate Richard Nixon, who was slated to speak in Miller Amphitheater in Hermann Park. The Rice Young Republicans turned out about 200 Rice students who, together with local high school students, local dignitaries, and UH students, assembled at Willy's statue. Beneath Lovett Hall arcade another 200 students with black armbands milled to protest the Vietnamese war and the three Presidential candidates^ Sporting signs such as "Millions for Defense — Not One C e n t for Rat Control," the protestors moved out f irst in an orderly manner across Hermann Park to the Amphitheater. Fruitcakes 32,000 Nixon fans—including many boisterous children and silver-haired suburban matrons, overflowed onto the grassy slopes of the new theatre. The demonstrators, g r e e t e d with derogatory s h o u t s from the crowd, including, "You bunch of fruitcakes, go on home," marched once around the sprawling crowd chanting anti-war slogans and singing as much as the ma-