Word: squadsmen
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...National Resistance" collapsed. There were minor riots in most West German cities, but all were quickly dispersed. At Munich, 300 Red agitators tangled with five policemen at the city's famed October festival at which 50,000 Germans had gathered to drink beer. Promptly, 200 German riot squadsmen rushed to the scene, arrested seven Communists-and everyone went back to his beer. That was the pattern in most of Western Germany. Police tirelessly quenched "peace bonfires," confiscated leaflets and arrested another 1,000 Communists. In Düsseldorf, a few days before, the British had requisitioned the Communists...
...promised to swear off: 1) recruiting of prep and high-school athletes (sometimes carried on in California with brass bands); 2) athletic scholarships; 3) phantom or sinecure campus jobs; 4) alumni or student organization handouts; 5) scalping of football tickets by squadsmen; 6) other "bad practices." To administer these bans, the Conference engaged wordy Mr. Atherton for three more years as its "commissioner," a post promptly dubbed "Tsar of West Coast Football...