Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure, the Guard's performance was appalling. National Guard armored personnel carriers rumbled through the streets blasting out street lights with .50-cal. machine guns and spraying down suspect buildings. Seeing a Negro man walk by, one Guardsman, rifle at the ready, ordered: "You get out of here, boy. Faster, boy. You run out of here." The man had no choice but to accept the humiliation and jog off. A couple and their three friends were ordered to lie on the ground, and then were threatened by more than a dozen Guardsmen armed with automatic weapons. Lieut. General John...
...Scattered outbreaks were also reported in San Francisco; Sacramento; Cal.; Waterbury, Conn; Phoenix, Ariz; Roanoke, Va.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; and Watts...
...Hugh Addonizio, Governor Hughes called up 2,600 National Guardsmen. Soon Jeeps, trucks and a clanking eleven-ton armored personnel carrier mounting machine guns roared into the ghetto. When several police were pinned down by Negro sniper fire, the APC rumbled up and began blazing away with its .30-cal. guns; unknown to the mob, they were loaded with blanks. The police got away. Simultaneously, Guardsmen and police patrols coursed through the streets-often behind fixed bayonets-picking up every Negro in reach. Black-Power Playwright LeRoi Jones, 32, was snatched from a Volkswagen with two loaded .32-cal. pistols...
Another member of our Washington bureau made news himself last week. On the Cal 40 sloop, Lancetilla II, owned and skippered by him, Economics Correspondent Juan Cameron won the Annapolis-Newport regatta, which this year proved to be one of the roughest in memory. Among Cameron's crew were John Wilhelm, also of the Washington bureau, Norris Brock, a TIME-LIFE Broadcast cameraman, Carter Brown, assistant director of the National Gallery, and Robert Amory, former deputy director of the CIA. Gales of up to 55 miles closed in about a day out, and from the time they left Chesapeake...
...Southern Cal's Paul Wilson, 19, hardly looked strong enough to bend a vaulting pole, let alone provide any serious competition for U.S.C. Teammate Bob Seagren-who only two weeks before had set a new world record of 17 ft. 7 in. Wilson, who learned to vault using bamboo from neighbors' yards, soared 17 ft. 8 in. to beat Seagren's mark by an inch...