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Saturday's three-hour parade down Constitution Avenue, led by Westmoreland, was the vets' own show. The 15,000 in uniforms and civvies, walked among floats, bands and baton twirlers. The flag-waving crowds even cheered...
...physical requirements of policework do not frighten her. "They teach you at the academy not to use your hands, to use the equipment you're issued," she says of possible confrontations, adding that she is "as qualified to use a baton...
...made 300. "That just was never part of it: counting the games." Still, his eyes shine proudly at the mention of Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Bear Bryant, the only other college football coaches who have done it. "I knew Warner as a formation in high school around Baton Rouge," he lightly laughs. " 'Warner Left,' 'Warner Right.' I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Stagg at a coaches' clinic in California in 1955. I love Bear. Every profession needs a superstar, you know. He's the coaches' superstar...
...sidelines. How can we be suitably disdainful of our rivals, and of rah-rah spirit in general, when a dozen Ken and Barbie Dolls with "H's" on their chests are yipping, "Let's get ROWDEE?" Do we want to compete with the UMass color guard and baton twirlerettes? Doesn't anyone have any pride in final club snobbery anymore? In the Hahvahd sneer? In smoke-filled coffee houses...
...planned rallies at home. One of the first was in Pasadena, Calif, where organizers of "Peace Sunday" expected up to 80,000 freeze fans to jam the Rose Bowl last weekend to hear Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Muhammad Ali and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Other demonstrations were planned for Baton Rouge, La., and Chicago...