Organizations: Sunday Patriots

The Sunday sun had not yet risen last week when 110 lawmen fanned out through New York State to snuff out a conspiracy that in firepower, at least, exceeded Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up Britain's Parliament 361 years ago to the week.

New York's Fawkesians were sparked by a Queens milkman whose nickname is "Nathan Hale," a Long Island land scape artist, and a 40-year-old Danbury State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist...

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