Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...palace and Clarence House, the London home of the princess. From tall masts in Parliament Square will dangle metal baskets filled with pink hydrangeas and yellow marguerites; gold-tasseled banners, bearing the monograms M and A, are to flutter from 70 flagpoles along a route lined by ramrod-straight guardsmen. The estimated cost: $56,000, or five times as much as was spent on the Queen's wedding to Prince Philip in the austerity year...
...public. Riding with Frondizi at a fast clip down the stately Avenue St. Martin, he insisted that the automobiles slow down, and objected when the crowd thickened and his escorts, a mounted troop of grenadiers dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, moved their horses around his car for protection. Waving the guardsmen aside, Ike greeted the dense crowds with a grin, and got a roar of welcome in return-a remarkable salute from the usually reserved Argentine public. The subdued chant of "Peron! Peron!" was drowned out by an ovation for the U.S. President...
...midafternoon, escaped the stream of bullets pumped into the house by a 30-cal. machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...
Ducking into doorways and houses, the home guardsmen fought back and within moments other armed French Algerian civilians, pulling out hidden weapons, came to their aid. Caught in a crossfire, the gendarmes dropped into the boulevard's wide middle gardens and unlimbered their automatic weapons. For 20 minutes, while the street lights blinked off and on, the crackle of rifle fire alternated with the rasping bursts of heavy machine guns...