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...Explanations. State officials moved quickly to restore order. Kansas Governor Robert Docking declared a "state of public emergency" and dispatched 242 National Guardsmen and 25 state troopers to help fatigued local police enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Police arrested 68 students and youths, three of them for possession of an incendiary device. Some 350 white businessmen formed an organization for better law enforcement to protect their property...
...demonstration broke up at dusk, about 2400 National Guardsmen who had been stationed in armories around the city moved onto the main streets and lined up in front of businesses and department stores. Though they did not enter the Yale campus, the Guardsmen stood at attention as demonstrators strolled away from the Green and dispersed into the Yale area...
...heavyweight regatta among B.U.M.I.T., and Northeastern was inserted in the middle of the lightweight races, insuring that the relatively favorable conditions that had surrounded the two freshman races early in the afternoon would not be present for either the varsity or J V contests at dusk...
...MARCH entered Cambridge in the cerie half-light of late dusk. The streetlights gave some light, but the glow in the sky behind the buildings lent the situation an unreal air. Marchers could not see the faces of those marching next to them. As the crowd progressed down Mass. Ave, toward Central Sq., files of cops, wearing riot helmets and carrying tear-gas guns, came into view at the side of the street. Advance scouts rushed ahead to survey police formations, then returned with exact reports on their number and armament: "There are 96 cops up there, with dogs...
Brock teamed with senior Bill Ball to win the third doubles match. 6-3, 6-4. just before dusk to give Harvard its seventh point. but at both of the other doubles positions. Engineer tandems rallied from first-set losses to throw the match into a tie when darkness halted competition...