Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is, except TIME. T. S. Matthews, then TIME'S NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, made repeated fun of Willkie's campaign. "Spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. He still drew curious crowds. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...
...outing. Everybody makes a try for it, and lots fail: out of gas." In Miami, power-boatmen quickly learned that the local Coast Guard was giving away gas to those whose tanks went dry. "Until some of our skippers got tough and charged a fee," recalls a Coast Guardsman, "we were running a floating gas station...
Hippies at Sea. Navigation is a sore point. "You'd be amazed at how many people think they can find their way around coastal waters with nothing but a highway road map," says one Coast Guardsman. Take the case of the New York boater who radioed last month that he was drifting powerless "somewhere in Long Island Sound." After fruitlessly combing the Sound with search planes and patrol vessels, the Coast Guard finally located him, three days later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like...
Goldbrick Boredom. Motiveless "busywork," the lowly chores of military housekeeping, and menial jobs that fall short of the challenges of civilian life are principal causes for low morale where it is found among reservists. "Our daily routine," fumed Sergeant Robert A. Levy, a District of Columbia Air Guardsman at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, "consists of reading magazines and newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cards, organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called...
Overwrought Message. The Algiers Motel shooting occurred at the height of the rioting of July on Detroit's central thoroughfare. Police had been subjected to sniper firing, and one cop had already been killed. Consequently, nerves were strained when an overwrought National Guardsman sent word of shots being fired from the area of the motel with its largely Negro clientele. The police dispatcher relayed the message: "Army under heavy fire." Actually, only a few shots had been heard, and Negro witnesses later claimed that these had come from a blank-cartridge pistol; no gun of any kind was ever...