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...were for sticking it out. "It's easy for you to be so brave," a girl in the front line screamed. A boy next to her echoed her sentiment, "If you're so damn sure we should stay why don't you come up and take my place. This trooper's shoes are Goddamn hard...
...center of the crowd, hacking its way through the demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx of soldiers. One trooper crumpled when he caught a beer can flat in the face. The people in front started begging with those behind not to throw anything because they were the ones who took the punishment, but it happened again and again. "If one more person throws something, I'm going...
...tells him to move up. The Guardsman complies, jabbing his feet into the back of the demonstrator sitting in front of him. The Marshal peers through the Guardsman's legs and shouts at the demonstrator, "Get off that soldier's feet." The demonstrator tries to explain that the trooper has moved up behind him and that he can't move because of the people sitting around him. The Marshal smashes the demonstrator over the head. The Guardsman panies and hits someone else with his rifle-butt. Beer cans, coke bottles, and rocks hail onto the mass of soldiers and there...
...Trooper 36-24-36. The originator of the series is Richard Orkin, 32, WCFL's director of creative production. A Yale Drama School dropout, he is also the voice of Chickenman and other male characters. The rest of the cast are Disk Jockey Jim Runyon, as the pomegranate-voiced announcer, and, in the female roles, Jane Roberts, WCFL's ex-traffic reporter ("Trooper...
...place? Good. He is salaried. He works for a profit-making organization. He deals in a product. It is smaller than a breadbox. On the side, he is a TV personality, a lecturer, and a writer of sorts. Also a show-biz nut, a pal of stars, a party trooper and a shameless punster. But he cleverly directs all these other activities toward the promotion of his product, the reward for which would fill a large breadbox with something like $375,000 a year...