Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surged out of schoolyards on the anniversary eve to attack cars, loot stores and hurl bricks at policemen. It looked like the prelude to a repetition of last April's anarchy. But Mayor Richard Daley moved swiftly, and, at his behest, Governor Richard Ogilvie had 5,000 National Guardsmen in the Chicago area by midafternoon. By nightfall, as Jeeps loaded with armed guardsmen crisscrossed the West Side, the city resembled a ghost town. Altogether, 90 persons were hurt, most of them only slightly, and 249 arrested...
Legal Challenge. To Obstetrician Aleck William Bourne (now retired but a hale 82), this strict regulation seemed outrageous. In 1938 he performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would...
...cases, uncompromising campus militants seem more interested in disorganizing college administrations than in reorganizing curriculums. Often, they are succeeding. And school authorities and government officials, for the most part, are taking an increasingly hard-line approach to the student rebels. Items: >At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, National Guardsmen were called in to restore order after black students and their allies had disrupted classes for three days. "The university will not be closed down," flatly declared Governor Warren P. Knowles, who first sent in 900 troopers, then dispatched another 1,000 the next day as the number of rebels...
...says culture starts on the coasts and eventually filters in to the midwest. Some products of Wisconsin's famous cheese and milk go East to college and look for their culture; the rest go to Madison and wait for it to come. Last week, culture, politics, and 2000 National Guardsmen came to Wisconsin, but they arrived in a typically...
...National Guard appeared everywhere on the university Thursday and Friday. The Guard occupied every building, and truck loads of Guardsmen followed student crowds to different street intersections around the campus. Wherever students went the Guard followed close behind. No one, however, was ready to start any major battles...