Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was too much for Daley and his men in blue. Insisted the mayor: "If you were to ask me if I support the Chicago police department and the National Guard in their actions, the answer would be an unequivocable [sic] yes." Police Superintendent James Conlisk ventured a brief statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel...
...North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries to cross. The guards in turn alert nearby army units, equipped to react quickly with helicopters and powerful searchlights...
Inviting radicals or more blacks would not have meant solving any more problems, but it would at least have provided a break in the conference style. As it turned out, the most effective and stirring moments usually occurred when someone let down his guard, or when a dispute among conferees reproduced social conflicts in the conference room. The first day, John B. Oakes, editorial page editor of the New York Times, and Roy Innis squared off in a debate over the relative merits of integration and black separatism as solutions to black problems. While the exchange was nothing...
...outstanding guard Billy Evans played his usual strong defensive game, and at times got help from his teammates, in containing Dover. When Dover did get the ball, however, the results were good, as he scored 14 points overall...
...freshmen have a 2-0 record with wins over Huntington Prep and the University of Connecticut freshmen. Although they have two standouts in Peter Schmid, a 6-7 center, and Dan Metzler, a 6-2 guard, they are not as strong as previous teams have been...