Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preparations were more elaborate. Some 50 Negro D.C. policemen were grouped on the far side of the gathering demonstrators getting a pep talk from a white police sergeant; a Red Cross station was set up by the Army as a constant reminder that the authorities expected trouble. As the crowd grew, the entertainment started-everyone seemed to be walking around aimlessly looking for someone...
...showed up and how they would react under stress. Spiegel was not pleased with the hippies and was afraid that they would make a joke out of the confrontation. "The authorities really know what they're doing,' 'Spiegel explained. "And they know that it's easier to control a crowd if there are a lot of small bands. All they have to do is put the Fugs on a truck and then make sure that they can control where the truck goes-the hippies will follow them like sheep...
...traffic and posting troop movements for those who couldn't see: "About 50 MP's are trying to block off the stairs... they're using tear gas... it looks like our people have them surrounded... yup, it looks like a rout," one of the speakers calmly announced to the crowd...
...Helpers are training other helpers; often they are working alone," Jared Israel '67 yelled back from the crowd. Throughout the ninety-minute meeting other students said that helpers spend nearly all their time doing the same routine painting jobs as journeymen...
Governor Francis J. Sargent, who last month addressed a Moratorium Day crowd, opened the day's observation by signing the Veterans' Day proclamation, and telling 300 observers, "It is the hope of all of us that there may be light at the end of that dark tunnel...