Word: plainclothesmen
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...halted to permit the presidential limousine to travel at speeds discouraging to snipers. The agents also consult with local lawmen about individuals in the area who pose security risks; some of these names appear on the Service's master potential-assassin list. The advance team may ask police plainclothesmen or Secret Servicemen from the nearest field office to place such suspects under surveillance. Hotel employees the President might come in contact with are carefully checked out, as are the kitchens where his food will be prepared. The agents make sure that hospitals in the area have an ample supply...
...avoid giving Boston's schools the appearance of armed camps, uniformed police are being stationed inside South Boston High School, at least at first. Plainclothesmen are assigned to patrol the corridors there, at Charlestown High and several other schools (see map). In addition, Boston's school administration has bought 15 weapons detectors−similar to those used in airports−which were placed inside high schools to prevent students from carrying knives, chains and guns to class. Students are being issued identification cards at Southie and several other schools where trouble is expected...
Determined to avoid any incident that might mar the first meeting between Ford and Sadat, Austrian officials mounted a massive watch over the Salzburg sessions. More than 2,200 Austrian police and security men were mobilized, to add to the small armies of plainclothesmen that Ford and Sadat were bringing. Armored cars and armed soldiers ringed Salzburg's airport, and detecting devices were strung around the airport to ward off intruders...
...Shockley, greeting him with the applause usually worthy of a debate winner. But that should have been predictable. YAF had filtered out any possible dissenters, either by their exclusionary ticket policy--100 of the 265 seats went to YAF members--or by the deterrent of more than 20 plainclothesmen who checked and rechecked the stubs, and searched for cameras and tape recorders, banned from the event for fear of some sort of insurrection. Those in the first row had to be careful at the end of the debate not to be trampled by autograph seekers and congratulators. who thanked Shockley...
TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that he was snapping pictures of government agents scuffling with Buddhists at a demonstration protesting South Viet Nam's harsh press laws, when suddenly one of the plainclothesmen rushed up and punched him on the back of the head, then followed with "one of those Kung Fu kicks to the stomach" before quickly retreating...