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...Massachusetts National Guardsmen are not given ammunition in the course of normal riot duty. The officers instruct them to use their bayonets if they are attacked. The lieutenant who supervises one unit told his men, "If a demonstrator tries to take you gun, stab him. Stab em, that's right, and when they see several of their buddies lying in the street severely wounded, they'll get the message." Only minutes before the same officer had told his men, "The most effective place to insert the bayonet is in the neck or crotch; these areas are soft and vulnerable...
...Zooming 'Em Past...
...White House," the man who sees that things get done. He is in Nixon's office so often, says an associate, that "he's usually trying to get out at the same time everyone else is trying to get in." Haldeman runs his staff meetings tightly?"I bang 'em through hard and fast, I zoom 'em past" ?and he is the only Nixon man who has no schedule of his own. His is shaped entirely by Nixon...
...Give 'Em An Inch...
...feeling as good as ever," said Harry S. Truman, tipping his hat to the reporters. The ex-President's 86th birthday was the occasion for celebrations in Kansas City, including the premiere of the film Give 'Em Hell, Harry. Truman himself is not giving anyone much hell any more. Even the photographers swarming about his lawn in Independence got an indulgent nod from Harry, who acknowledged that they had to make a living, "same...