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...group of anti-Communist students began marching to Hradcany Castle, Benes' residence. Running a gauntlet of police who belabored them with rifle butts, they managed to get across Jirasek Bridge (though their ranks were thinned). Police with Tommy guns emerged from the shadows of the massive castle walls. An officer ordered the students to step back ten paces; the students fell back. "Twenty paces!" cried the officer. This time the students did not budge. They started singing the Czech national anthem...
Governor Earl Warren (Fri. 10:30 p.m., Mutual) runs the gauntlet on Meet the Press...
Class of '48 election techniques ran the gauntlet with middling results at the meeting as Dudley House voting was censured because one aspirant officer saw fit to campaign unduly close to the ballot...
...gathered on the town pier. Fishing boats and Coast Guard vessels, some of which were forced to maneuver through the smoke with radar, began taking them aboard. Hundreds crossed to the mainland through heavy, gale-driven seas. Then Army bulldozers opened the road and automobiles began running the fiery gauntlet again...
Something well worth staying away from is the annual Wet Down ceremony in the spring. The senior class forms a double column across the commons and all the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and campus wheels in that order run the gauntlet of flailing leather belts. As each bruised figure reaches the end of the line, he joins in to wreak vengeance on those behind. "Thus do freshmen become sophomores," writes the Daily Dartmouth...