Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shattered and shaken, the dissenters broke and ran, leaving bloody-headed buddies-and a dozen hapless newsmen-crumpled in the streets. The picketers resumed their vigil, forcing the draft center to bus its inductees right to the door, then double-time the soldiers-to-be through the crowd under escort of bayonet-swinging troops. It was an ugly image, and one that could cozily be interpreted outside the U.S. to imply that American draftees must be marched into service at gunpoint...
Vanelli immediately attempted unsuccessfulily to escort him through the crowd which by then had grown to over 100. They stepped on and over three tiers of seated demonstrators but were then met by rows of students standing, with arms linked. A spokesman for the demonstrators, Michael S. Ansara '68, told Leavitt he could leave only after he signed a yellow sheet of paper bearing the hand-scrawled pledge: "I agree to stop interviewing on the Harvard campus and not to return for that purpose...
...Governor arrived at the Faculty Club at 6:05 p.m. in a pale blue Plymouth with a two-motorcycle police escort. About 15 curious Harvard students were there to see him or snap pictures. The first thing Romney did after stepping out of the car was to walk over to the two motorcycle policemen and thank them for "a fine...
...Saigon to take care of Miss America. Not bad for a dream. Even better as the real McCoy. So U.S. Army Captain Frank Lennon, 25, a West Pointer and a gentleman, scraped off the mud and flew to Saigon to act as official escort for Jane Anne Jayroe, 20, the current Miss America, and five former state beauty queens arriving for a 17-day tour of Viet Nam. And how came Lennon by this boondoggle? He just wrote a letter to the Army's p.i. officer, mentioning that he knew one of the girls (which was roughly true...
...indulgently as Pitcher Plimpton retired three inept opponents. Once George's tomfoolery was out of the way, though, Diamondologist Moore settled purposefully into the press box, with George at her side, to cheer through 18 innings of the regular Yankees-Twins night game, finally permitted Plimpton to escort her home...