Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shelley telephoned Governor Edmund Brown, campaigning in San Diego, to ask for 2,000 National Guardsmen. Patrolling both the Hunter's Point and Fillmore ghettos with fixed bayonets and orders to "shoot to kill-take no guff from anyone," the Guard ended the melee in two nights. All told, 51 people were injured, 267 arrested...
...achievement still informs the approach to space nearly a decade-and thousands of trespasses-later. No established rules exist in space, and no method has yet been found to make rules effective there. No one has devised a way to station a traffic cop or patrol vessels to guard the boundaries of some theoretical mare nostrum of space. A canon of space law can thus be created only by mutual consent...
...SPIES IN THE SKY. A different kind of "communications" satellite has already been widely used by both the U.S. and Russia. A considerable number of the U.S.'s orbiting objects are surveillance satellites that guard the U.S. against surprise attacks and provide constant watch over both Russian and Red Chinese territory. Since the U-2 flights over Russia were halted in 1960, the U.S. has had to depend heavily on its Samos, Ferret, Midas and Vela systems for vital intelligence about the Soviet Union. With those satellites, the U.S. has mapped and photographed Russia's missile sites...
Practically everybody on the Jets had a hand in the slaughter. Outweighed by 70 Ibs., Guard Sam DeLuca neutralized Houston's 315-lb. Defensive Tackle Ernie Ladd so effectively that Ladd spent the entire fourth quarter on the bench. Cornerback Johnny Sample picked off two Oiler passes; Middle Linebacker Al Atkinson contributed nine tackles. And Namath, untouched by Houston hands behind a ring of "fantastic" blockers, picked the Oilers' secondary to shreds...
...groom was Captain Harold Macmillan, a Grenadier Guard, Old Etonian and classical scholar of Balliol, who would almost certainly never have written a book about himself (the family publishes, but does not write) had he not also, by the laws of the British invention called natural selection, become Prime Minister...