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...crowd soon was rent with heated arguments, which broke out into sporadic fist fights. Police arrived by about 10:30 p.m. to put a tamper on the restlessness...
Early Life. Educated at Tunis' famous Sadiki College, Slim was a fragile youth who loved fist fights (he usually won), detective stories (his hero: Nick Carter), and soccer. A brilliant student, he graduated at 16, went on to study law at the Sorbonne...
...work shy" or reluctant to volunteer for the army, or merely generally "injurious to the public welfare." Two workers at a carbide plant in Buna were beaten for failing to enlist for military service, then were hauled before a judge, who noted happily that "they got the fist of the workers' class for their cowardly statements." In Leipzig, two members of a jazz club drew 13 and 15-year terms because, as the court put it, they were "stimulated by broadcasts of Radio Luxembourg [which transmits mostly music] into setting fire to the stable of a collective farm...
...such assaults have almost tripled in recent years, some 300 cop fighters were prosecuted in the past year; their weapons ranged from nail-studded boards to soggy garbage and (in a home for delinquent girls) bedpans. On Memorial Day, a mob of 300 set upon 75 cops in a fist-swinging riot at Griffith Park started by a hassle over a teen-ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when police tried to enforce a ban against dancing after midnight. 300 guests at a wedding party swarmed...
...form of frustration, no kind of rage, can compare to the feelings of a Manhattanite stuck in traffic. He taps his feet, pounds his fist against the windowpane, vows to move to Colorado, and wishes he could jump out of his conveyance with a ray gun, cutting a deadly path through the surrounding metal wilderness of trucks, buses and cars. Ray guns, so far, are out; but there is an escape machine that a small, hardy band of New Yorkers are using to beat the traffic nightmare: the bicycle...