Word: guards
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Defending league champions often enter a season complacent. They sometimes let down their guard, thinking that things will work out without their making...
Other candidates who have been mentioned for the job include Calvin J. Kantor, the head of the University security guard unit; Christine Wellington, a former Northeastern campus police sergeant and Saul L. Chafin, Harvard's police chief from...
...advisers keep wondering about tacking rightward--and it's their job to consider every contingency--but Dole has resisted such thoughts so far. As he prepared to speak at a National Guard convention last Wednesday, some of his aides suggested that Dole revive his call to make English America's "official language," a long-standing Dole position that ranks about midway on the G.O.P. right-wing's wish list. No, the candidate told his advisers, that would be "inappropriate" for an audience concerned with military matters. In stead Dole reiterated his essentially centrist themes, as he did all across...
...death for the Emperor. But when Murayama, the son of a simple fisherman, attended university after the war, his view of traditional authority changed. He read Marx and became a socialist. He joined a club devoted to the study of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who put him on guard against the foolish consistencies that are the hobgoblins of little minds. Last week the Prime Minister broke ranks with the little minds in his government and spoke out on Japan's wartime actions with an unqualified repentance never heard from his predecessors...
Thirty-two years after he needed the help of the National Guard to get past Governor George Wallace and enroll at the University of Alabama, James Hood, 52, has returned, this time to study for a Ph.D. And to prove he doesn't hold a grudge, Hood plans to ask Wallace--who once pledged to "bar the schoolhouse door" to prevent desegregation--to hand him his diploma, come graduation. Now a dean at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin, Hood says he realized even back then that Wallace's stance was just a gesture. "I respect him as a human...