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...temporary restraining order to be issued against Wallace and his state police. The five, all Southerners, agreed. Swiftly, federal marshals fanned out in Alabama to serve the restraining order on the troopers and the Governor himself. Closeted in the statehouse in Montgomery, Wallace ordered his National Guardsmen to rout out the marshals, who were deployed on the capitol grounds waiting for him to come out. Then followed a comic-opera scene, with helmeted and bayonet-carrying guardsmen flushing sheepish marshals out of the bushes and sending them on their...
...very muzzles of the guns. But they met men who were their equals in spirit and their superiors in tenacity. There never was better fighting since Thermopylae than was done yesterday by our infantry and artillery . . ." In the end, the Union defenses held, and the rebels were sent into rout. For Timesman Wilkeson, there was glory, but little pleasure in victory. At the height of battle, he had found the crushed body of his son, 19-year-old Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, a Union artillery man. "My pen is heavy," he wrote that night. "Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburgh have...
...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...
Lacrosse is not a game for kindly folk, as the good Quakers of Pennsylvania amply proved last year. The Red and Blue lost all five of its Ivy League games, including an ignominious 15-3 rout at the hands of the Crimson...
...Thursday, Maryland took up where Rutgers left off. The Terrapins blasted Munro's stickmen 15-5, taking maximum advantage of ten Crimson penalties. Seven Maryland goals came on extra man plays and the varsity never led in the one-sided rout...