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...dollop of the reeking riot queller spilled and gas masks were donned until it cleared. The troops were the first committed in metropolitan Washington for crowd-control duty since 1932, when Herbert Hoover called in 1,000 cavalry and infantrymen under Douglas MacArthur to put down the Bonus March...
...when they return home. Draft boards have even recalled 38 corpsmen from overseas, and Vaughn fumes over the money wasted training volunteers who are inducted before they complete Peace Corps service. The real reason so many young people choose the Peace Corps, he says, is to garner a hidden bonus: to discover a deeper maturity in themselves by serving others. "Our nation," reasons Vaughn, "will be the better...
This weekend in Washington several hundred American citizens were beaten, tear-gassed, and incarcerated by officials and soldiers whose salaries they help pay. It was the bloodiest clash in the nation's capital since General MacArthur's troops routed the Bonus Army at Anacostia Flats...
...holding devices used to attach unbolted metal sheets to the frames of jets, along with precision sheet metal and containers. A quick and drastic surgical job was essential if the company was to be saved. The container division was eliminated. Managers' salaries were cut by 25%, and a bonus based on profit was substituted...
...first Harvard goal was a gift. Diminutive inside Bruce Detora, looking for a shot out in front, was fouled by an over-eager Wesleyan fullback, and the Crimson was awarded a penalty kick. Lutz Hoeppner, who normally takes the bonus shots, wasn't playing at the time, so center half Richie Hardy drew the call. Hardy, whose nonchalance is at times overwhelming, almost half-heartedly kicked the ball goalward, but it sailed past the goalie for the first Crimson tally in a week...