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...back got a severe test right on the White House lawn. He made a little speech to 2,500 foreign high school students, in the U.S. under an exchange program, and then made the mistake of approaching the rope barriers that held back the kids. Suddenly the screeching mob surged past the ropes and swarmed upon him. Rescued by policemen and Secret Service agents after a riotous struggle, the President retreated to his office shorn of at least two possessions, a handkerchief and a tie clasp. But next day the two Indonesian students who had grabbed the souvenirs did their...
Last week, his ammunition running low, Barbot was about to muster his mob for an all-or-nothing attack on Duvalier. He and his brother Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
...President and the Attorney General," rumbled Mississippi's Segregationist Governor Ross Barnett, "have encouraged demonstrations, freedom rides, sit-ins, picketing and actual violation of local laws. Gentlemen, if you pass this civil rights legislation, you are passing it under the threat of mob action and violence on the part of Negro groups and under various types of intimidation from the executive branch of this government...
...idea is to minimize those hours-long mob scenes in Manhattan's sweltering customs sheds, and if it is successful, inspectors will be stationed in other major European ports of embarkation. The whole project marks but an inch or two of progress, according to Customs Commissioner Philip Nichols Jr. In 1962 the bureau had only 2,298 inspectors to handle 158 million people at U.S. ports of entry. Congress refused to authorize any more, has also nixed proposals for 1) a corps of pretty hostesses to aid incoming passengers, 2) a Customs Academy, which would eventually turn out inspectors...
...this belief, while steadfastly maintained in public, is becoming increasingly hollow. Far more realistic than last week's mob scene was a rare joint appearance by Christian Democrat Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, both of whom pleaded for reconciliation with Poland. The emotions that can still be stirred up by talk about the "lost homelands" in the East sometimes obscure a major political and social development in West Germany: the remarkably successful integration into the nation's life of 13 million refugees, one-quarter of the population...