Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last fall the law came to Buffalo Gap. Unwary townsfolk voted to incorporate so they could get a better school and a municipal water system. What they also got, as soon as their aldermen began to exercise their new powers, was a part-time city marshal. And as soon as he pinned on his star, the marshal began to enforce a 3O-m.p.h. speed limit. From hot-rodding teen-agers to throttle-tromp-ing adults, Buffalo Gap was outraged. The marshal got no cooperation; he could not make his summonses stick in court. And since his only salary consisted...
Flashlight & Six-Gun. Two more marshals came and went before Mayor C. P. Hendrix finally found a long, lean hangover from the old West named Floyd Earl. The new marshal took over like the hero of a TV shoot-'em-up. "This has been my home all my life," says Earl. "I felt like I was just volunteering for military service." With neither uniform nor police car to advertise his authority, Earl prowled his territory after dark, wigwagged at speeders with a flashlight, unlimbered his six-gun and shot at them when they failed to stop. Although...
...then half the town was after the marshal's hide. Last week they called a meeting and tried to get Earl fired. "He jumps out at cars and starts waving this flashlight at them," said Mrs. Carl Hollowell. "If you were a stranger going through town, would you stop? Then he pulls a gun on you and starts shooting. The other day he was walking down the main street with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun in his hands. I tell you, everybody's life in town is in danger with that man loose...
Thailand's ex-Premier P. Pibulsonggram, 63, onetime dictatorial Thai field marshal who was booted from power in 1957, was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Bodh Gaya, India. Father of six grown children, Pibulsonggram took an oath of celibacy before a golden image of Buddha. In keeping with Buddhist doctrine, he was not required to divorce his devoted wife, Mme. La-iad, a renowned feminist...
...From the President, the order would be flashed to SAC headquarters in Omaha, which would relay it to the U.S. officer in Britain in command of U.S. warheads. From the Prime Minister, a parallel order would go to Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross, commander of the Thor squadrons. Air Marshal Cross would transmit the order to each Thor station. The R.A.F. officer, inserting his key in the lower slot, would start the fully automatic 15-minute countdown to nuclear...