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...Hello Defiance." Only a handful of people stood outside Central High School that night as the troops hove in sight. The paratroopers spilled out of their trucks, formed smartly on the school grounds. Field telephone lines were strung from the trunks of the high school's lordly oaks. Jeeps moved around to the rear of the school, parked in a line along practice-football charging machines. Pup tents blossomed in back of the school's tennis courts. Colonel William A. Kuhn, smart and salty, swung a swagger stick as he examined a map of the school grounds...
...Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction. Radio patrol jeeps sped back and forth. A walkie-talkie crackled: "Hello Defiance, this is Crossroads Six." A crowd began gathering a block east of the school, where "Roadblock Alpha" had been thrown up at an intersection. Major James Meyers, a thin, hard man with the glint of a hawk in his eyes, ordered up a sound truck. "Please return to your homes," said he, "or it will be necessary...
Friendliness by Day. Not everyone in Levittown belongs to the anti-Myers Social Club. More than 1,000 residents signed a "Declaration of Conscience" deploring "acts of violence and intimidation." Some came by to mow Myers' lawn, leave gifts or say hello. But even a few of these have paid the price of friendliness. Next-door neighbor Lewis Wechsler has been openly friendly since Myers moved in; since then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half...
...years at school, and they seemed to have an uncanny ability to remember everything he told them about his personal life. Many even got to calling him by his first name, and as he strolled around the city Russians who recognized him would rush up to say hello...
...against "entrenched practices" among the police. Gordon, whose previous reporting was limited to real estate, basked in his sudden celebrity. A sumptuous brunette, he said, recognized him from his pictures as he rode home on a rapid-transit car, and, leaning over, her mouth close to his ear, whispered: "Hello, Badge...