Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the third night, Democratic Mayor Daley, who had dismissed Tues day's violence as a "juvenile incident," requested mobilization of the National Guard. On Friday, 4,000 men of the 33rd Infantry Division, armed with bayoneted rifles, machine guns and tear gas, took up positions in and around the riot zone. Major General Francis Kane sent 1,600 of his troopers through the Roosevelt Road area in a show of force. "If anyone shoots at my men," he warned, "my orders are to shoot back - shoot to kill." The rioting ran down to a few isolated outbursts...
...Other Rooms, Ruth Willock's The Night Visitor. Another note on a kitchen bulletin board reiterated a standing order: "Attention. Students are not to allow anyone into the townhouse without the house mother being there." An oversize poster on a bedroom wall proclaimed: "Sleep Well Tonight - Your National Guard Is Awake...
...honor guard stood at saber-stiff attention and a 19-gun artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier...
...freedom of the press. Last week in a nonjury trial, Annette was found guilty of contempt. Though she escaped a possible six-month jail sentence, she was fined $300. Editorial writers across the U.S. leaped to her defense. "Guilty of contempt or not," said the Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard, "Miss Buchanan has performed a public service" in pointing up serious questions. "The relationship between the press and civil authority, invaluable and unquestioned in more than a century of Oregon history, has been seriously damaged-but not by Miss Buchanan...
Robert Ginn, Producer-Director of the Experimental Theater explained that plays primarily of original or avant-guard nature would be produced. But the real character of the theater, Ginn continued, will be determined by the ideas of those students who apply for the many acting and directing opportunities which are available...