Word: quickly
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Leaders of the Guard's Washington-based lobby, the National Guard Association, are quick to deny both the accuracy and relevancy of this image; they recently spent $50,000 on a series of full-page newspaper ads to hail their own importance in time of "flood, fire, war, or riot." The Guard is surely important in numbers: there are 418,500 members of the Army National Guard and 82,700 Air National Guardsmen. By act of Congress, they make up the primary reserve of the U.S. Army and Air Force. Each year, the U.S. Government puts up roughly...
...committed to piecemeal units. The New Jersey Guard lacked radio equipment to keep in contact with the state police, and both Newark and Detroit Guardsmen lacked bulletproof vests and proper riot helmets. It should be said that the record is not all negative: in Milwaukee, a curfew and quick action by Guardsmen, who flooded the streets at the first sign of serious trouble, nipped a riot...
What was nationally obvious was that the Guard needs better training. The quick directive that flashed out from Washington on the heels of the rioting should provide a good start. All over the nation, Army Guardsmen have been working hard to complete the crash 32-hour riot-training program ordered by the Pentagon. Some of the highlights: crowd control, building roadblocks, locating and isolating snipers. Above all, the new course teaches Guardsmen to avoid mass gunfire...
Harvard uses "long-gain" formations simply because it does not have the players to do anything else. In recent years Harvard has not had a bruising halfback who can barrel up the middle for large hunks of yardage: its running talent has been concentrated in a bunch of quick, shifty, and relatively light halfbacks...
...anything, the offensive line this year should prove to be more effective and dependable than it was last season. It is not often that Feula has a relatively experienced center (Tom Weiss), a big tackle who is as quick as Bob Brooks the is a professional prospect), and two proven ends like Carter Lord and Joe Cook. The only unsure spot was right tackle, and there Chris Burns has been a diligent learner and competent performer...