Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout a long Texas night, 43 troubled soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division squatted defiantly in a parking lot at Fort Hood, far out in the wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk...
...insisted that their school had first priority. But the wily archaeologists, abandoning their reticence, called in the press and television, granted interviews, and soon had all of France talking about visiting the Roman ruins of Vienne. Flattered by the national publicity and suddenly fascinated by the city of their 1st, 2nd and 3rd century ancestors, Vienne's townspeople have now agreed to build their school on an adjoining 25-acre site -and to accept half a million dollars from Malraux's ministry for their suddenly valuable peach orchard...
Chicago 3 Minnesota 2, 1st...
...Louis 6 New York 3, 1st...
Pittsburgh 8 Atlanta 4, 1st...