Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Halsted Street side of the building. Owners of buildings near by were ordered to keep windows closed for the duration of the convention-a consider able inconvenience in a Chicago August. Policemen with guns, walkie-talkies and binoculars were posted atop the amphitheatre. Protected by barbed wire screens, National Guard jeeps looked as if they were heading for jungle combat...
...Hill, planted artillery on the heights of Letna Hill, where a mammoth statue of Stalin once overlooked the city. In Old Town Square, they even placed six antiaircraft guns by the Jan Hus monument, the symbol of Czechoslovakia's historic quest for liberty. Everywhere, paratroops in purple berets stood guard alongside tank crews in full battle dress, cradling automatic rifles in their laps. In swiftness of execution, the invasion had been a model military operation. But the occupation was soon to prove quite another matter in ways that the Soviets had not foreseen. The Czechoslovaks, as the invaders discovered...
...invasion of Czechoslovakia caught the U.S. with its guard down. When Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin relayed the first details to President Johnson, key foreign-policy makers were scattered. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was preoccupied with a summation of Viet Nam policy for the Democratic Party Platform Committee. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach was vacationing at Martha's Vineyard. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson had left Moscow for a holiday in Venice that earlier tensions in Prague had delayed. European allies of the U.S. were no better prepared. NATO envoys meeting the next day in Brussels had little more...
...marchers outside the amphitheatre the night that the nominee is selected, and security arrangements are being prepared accordingly. The city's 11,500-man police force will be put on twelve-hour shifts during the week of the convention; 5,500 riot-trained members of the Illinois National Guard are being alerted for duty. The Guard has been given permission to bivouac troops in two parks near the hall and in five public high schools. Halsted Street, which runs along the east side of the amphitheatre, will be accessible only to special buses for a mile. Cross streets leading...
...vice president of Manhattan's Allen & Co. investment banking firm, White made himself heard back home in Denver in 1964 by parlaying $100,000 of his own money into control of Colorado Milling & Elevator Co. He then shook up Denver's old guard with some financial wizardry that enabled him to take over the venerable Great Western Sugar Co. He has since merged his two companies into the Great Western United Corp., a diversified $259 million-a-year food products firm, of which he is both chairman and president...