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WHAT WOULD happen to a National Guardsman if he was ordered to fire on student protestors and refused? That, according to Robert Sherill, would depend on a lot of things. It would depend first, on how angry his superiors were: second, on whether the soldier had ever been connected with any left-of-center political groups; third, on how dramatically the press played the incident and the inevitable court-martial; and fourth, on whether any influential civilian figure decided the trial was producing too much heat to permit the military to have...
Sunday night 800 guardsmen used bayonets and tear gas to break up a demonstration of nearly 1200 students at Kent State. At least one student was bayoneted in the back and one guardsman was hurt by a rock...
...mail strike briefly deprived the N.B.A.'s Eastern-champion Knickerbockers of two key basketball players. Mike Riordan, who plays guard, was called up by his National Guard unit to drive a mail truck. Cazzie Russell, who plays forward, played guard-in front of the Kingsbridge armory. Guardsman Cazzie's change of uniform fooled neither the photographers nor the kids, who gave the big sentinel little opportunity to relax at his post...
...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...
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...