Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jail Tents. Employees at the Stock Yard Inn, where many of the delegates will eat at least once, have been checked for security. (Three failed to meet specifications, but were fired for "incompetence" before the test was completed.) Secret Service agents will inspect all personnel and cargoes going into the stockyards. Other agents will be positioned to survey everyone arriving by public transport. Known militants and agitators will be shadowed as a matter of course...
...last year's multimillion-dollar holocaust that gutted the modern McCormick Place convention hall-it probably would have housed this year's convention-is still painfully fresh. If mass arrests overflow the Cook County Jail, officials are prepared to put prisoners in tents in the jail yard. While the candidates trade charges on whether the convention is open or closed, it is, physically at any rate, the tightest in U.S. history-a kind of Stalag '68. Already the demonstrators have achieved the feat of forcing a major party to pick a candidate for President behind barbed wire...
...Harvard Summer News, the staff of which never approaches nine in size, will nonetheless field a full complement tomorrow, Wednesday, at 4 p.m. behind the football stadium on the softball fields. We challenge the women of Quincy House to do us battle there. (Women of the Yard, you can play too.) The News will supply all the relevant equipment...
...ammo to throw it overboard. For this Father O'Callahan, who died in 1964, became the only chaplain in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S. O'Callahan was commissioned at Boston Navy Yard. Donning a sailor's white hat, Richard Cardinal Cushing presided, observing that war "can make men into brutes. But out of it can also come achievements that expand the human spirit and remain an inspiration for all future time...
...course, a lot of exceptions to the consensus exist, but almost every girl who beamed and said, "I've met some fabulous fellows here," admitted that these types were hard to find. As a rule, they don't saunter around Harvard Yard...