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...spring of 1948, two formidable ladies met over a luncheon table at Romanoff's restaurant in Hollywood. "When she walked in," recalls one of the other, "every chin in the place dropped. Hasty telephone calls brought in a mob of patrons. Nobody moved until we left arm in arm two hours later." After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper...
Justice Department spokesmen had a ready explanation. Last fall three Negroes applied for admission to all-white Alabama, but so far they have been blocked by state authorities. Fearing a future integration showdown similar to the violent mob efforts to keep James Meredith out of the University of Mississippi, Justice asked for aerial photographs to help federal marshals prepare their strategy and tactics in advance. Said a Justice official: "There was sort of a critique on the University of Mississippi-a re-examination of everything we did there in case that kind of thing ever happened again. The marshals thought...
...barely edged through the screaming, cheering mob. Larrazábal kept nervously combing his hair and murmuring "My God! My God!" The car's clutch was burning, and the party, Garcia included, had to be transferred to another car for the trip into Caracas, where 3,000 viva-shouting greeters waited...
...legs appeared on the hood, and disappeared as she climbed over the windshield and onto the roof. More people began stomping on the roof, and as it started to cave in, Larrazábal climbed out a window and onto the roof to try to calm the mob. A fat woman in a tight skirt nearly squashed him in a bear hug. Larrazábal frantically leaped down, fled to another car, and finally managed to get away...
With their hero gone, the crowd hurled rocks at the National Guardsmen assigned to keep order. One Guardsman fired his pistol into the air. The mob charged, and the Guardsmen triggered a warning burst from their tommy-guns. The mob set fire to a bus and charged again. The Guardsmen aimed lower. Three rioters were killed, nine wounded...