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...Lavender Hill Mob" with Alec Guinness, which laughs its way through an implausible gold robbery. It goes on at 5:30, 7:30, and 9:30 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre...
...Uhuru!" (Freedom) bellowed the burly, bearded African in red shirt and beaded cap. "Uhuru na ushindi!" (Freedom and victory) roared back the weaving, excited mob of 20,000 arrayed before him in Nairobi's stadium. Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta had lost none of his magic appeal with the crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party...
...inspiring aspects. Meredith's very presence on that campus was an affirmation that the individual's rights under the Constitution are to be enforced against whatever opposition, at whatever cost. The state government had tried to keep him out of the university, and a frenzied mob had fought a bloody, nightlong battle to get him out. But all in vain, for his right to be there was backed up by the might of the national Government. Only in America, perhaps, would the Government send thousands of troops to enforce the right of an otherwise obscure citizen to attend...
Most of the attackers, operating in darkness as members of a mob, escaped not only injury but arrest. Marshals and MPs took about 200 prisoners, but most of them were soon released for lack of solid evidence. Of those prisoners, only 24 were Ole Miss students; another score or so were students from other Mississippi colleges and from Southwestern at Memphis College. The rest, pretty seedy specimens, were intruders who had nothing to do with any university." A dozen of them, including men from Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas as well as Mississippi, were arraigned on charges of insurrection...
Barabbas. A mysterious figure. The Gospels say only that he was a thief and a murderer condemned with Christ but released by Pilate when the mob, asked to choose which one should live, cried out: "Not this man but Barabbas!" The church fathers say little more. Yet if Christ died for any man he died for Barabbas. What is the meaning of this fateful and God-chosen criminal who gleams in the shadows of the Christian understanding...