Word: skirmishes
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...ROTC building, officers in two Jeeps rolled across the grass to address the students with bullhorns: "Evacuate the Commons area. You have no right to assemble." Back came shouts of "Pigs off campus! We don't want your war." Students raised middle fingers. The Jeeps pulled back. Two skirmish lines of Guardsmen, wearing helmets and gas masks, stepped away from the staging area and began firing tear-gas canisters at the crowd. The Guardsmen moved about 100 yards toward the assembly and fired gas again. A few students picked up canisters and threw them back, but they fell short...
...Project, which had begun a drive months ago to force the company to stop manufacturing antipersonnel fragmentation bombs. Security kept most of the demonstrators outside, and guards pushed others from the lobby. When flying beer bottles shattered glass doors and windows, 60 city policemen wearing gas masks formed a skirmish line to clear the entrance. About 300 demonstrators, many of them stripped to the waist and daubed in red and white grease paint, managed to get inside. They shouted demands that Chairman James H. Binger accept their nominations for directors. The Rev. William Grace, a United Presbyterian minister, damned...
...crowd finally reached Shannon Hall, it found a dozen Harvard policemen lined up in front of the building and busloads of state troopers encamped a block away. So the crowd stood in the parking lot for 20 minutes in an uneasy quiet punctuated occasionally by a rock or skirmish. With hundreds of cops just seconds away, the strategy of attacking the building seemed dubious at best and the suspense was finally broken when a cry went up for the CFIA...
...first skirmish was this week. The Harvard personnel office refused to open its files to investigators from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare checking compliance with minority group hiring provisions of the Civil Rights...
...discussing was hemlines. The subject heated up as a result of Mme. Georges Pompidou's triumphant American tour with those calf-clutching Longuettes from Paris. In women's eyes, at least, Mme. Pompidou just may have tipped the scales in the year's mini-midi-maxi skirmish. In the front line of the battle, Los Angeles-based James Galanos became the first American designer to drop all hemlines below the knee; Paris' Bernard Lanvin is scraping ankles. Manhattan's Geoffrey Beene alone seems determined to keep the knee in the public domain...