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Vantage Point. In Honolulu, a four-year file of unsolved burglaries was cleared up when police discovered that Prisoner Joseph Andrade had been sneaking off from the road gang during lunch...
...Kansas City police rounded up a gang of teen-agers who had kept motorists in a state of nerves for two months by I) driving slowly along downtown streets knocking windows out of parked cars with hammers, and 2) stealing machines and using them for "automobile jousts." Jousts were fought at a school ground by youths who drove two stolen cars at each other with the hand throttles open, leaped out seconds before the machines collided...
...Garden of Gethsemane, Arabs and Jews bombarded each other with mortar and grenades. In an orange grove near Rehovoth, Jews blew up a British train bringing soldiers back from leave in Cairo. In the twisted steel and splintered wood, 28 were found dead, 47 wounded. The terrorist Stern Gang of extremist Zionists boasted that it had blown up the train...
...Stern Gang and even the "moderate" Jewish Agency blamed the British for the preceding week's horror in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street (see cut), where an explosion had killed 54 Jews. The Arabs took the credit for setting off the blast, but the Jews preferred to believe that it had been the work of British troops. The wrecking of the train (whose soldier passengers could not possibly have had a part in the Ben Yehuda outrage) was a "reprisal...
...help, snatched at democracy, he snatched it away from them. Like Father Marx, he knew what was best. He organized riots (see cut) that weakened and, finally, a coup that overpowered the Kerensky government. He organized, as Marx had taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian...