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...unhappy colony. One night in Leonora, ten miles west of Georgetown, a band of terrorists attacked a police patrol, killed two constables and escaped with their rifles. Next morning an elderly Negro couple was found shot to death on their nearby farm. At news of the killings, a raging mob of Negroes halted a Georgetown-bound train and in a vicious melee left 17 East Indians injured, including one victim with both hands, both legs and his back broken. In Georgetown, gangs of Negroes beat up hundreds of Indians, looted Indian market stalls, robbed Indian workers, chased Indian children...
...Horse racing's an opium dream beyond all dreams ever spun, Where every sad bloke in the mob should have won every race that was run. -Grantland Rice
...Jump! Jump! screamed onlookers as a troubled youth threatened to leap from a twelfth-story hotel ledge in Albany, N.Y. "Jump! Jump! cried another mob last week as a jobless man set to dive off Manhattan's Brooklyn Bridge. Both would-be suicides were eventually talked down to safety, but not before hundreds of witnesses gaily exchanged bets on their fate whilte yowling such taunts as "What's the matter, ya yellow...
Other laws already passed by the legislature would prevent picketing; deter boycotts (maximum fine, $500, maximum sentence, six months); outlaw "false statements" to federal authorities concerning the denial of constitutional rights ($1000 and/or 5 years); permit towns to set curfews; and allow an enlarged state highway patrol to suppress "mob violence, intimidation, and terror" whether the local government requests...
...desk drawer alongside a .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum. The Magnum has been there since last October, when Lodge received his umpteenth warning of a plot against his life. The ambassador regards the lethal little gat rather wryly. Says he: "I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer...