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Addressing the Oxford University Conservative Association, Oxford's Chancellor (and Britain's Prime Minister) Harold Macmillan encountered a bit of disloyal, not to say disorderly, opposition. Greeted outside the Oxford Union Debating Hall by a jeering mob of 300 flourishing Ban-the-Bomb signs, Supermac followed a phalanx of rugby-hardened supporters to the back door only to find it bolted. Beating his way back to the front door again, Macmillan found that it, too, was locked, was obliged to hammer away on it for three minutes before unnerved officials inside the building accepted his repeated assurances...
...week Iran's powerful landowners struck back. In the classic ploy by which extreme right and left wings join forces to overthrow a moderate regime, the reactionary landlords hitched up with the Communist-infiltrated National Front Party in an attempt to bring down Amini's regime by mob violence...
Restless Travelers. There was a good deal of comedy-which Aaron solemnly neglects-in the cultural shenanigans of the period. There was high irony in the complaints by the party about its flighty fellow travelers; it had corralled a mob of high-strung writers and complained because they would not become party hacks. The rebels would not "accept discipline"; they were full of "bourgeois illusions," "neuroses" and other grave crimes...
...Algeria were either in opposition or sitting on the fence. Challe, who had hoped to win by a bloodless coup d'état, collapsed. Salan made a last effort to keep the Revolt of the Generals going?again from a balcony overlooking the Forum, where a supercharged Algiers mob was again screaming that it had been betrayed. But Salan's words could not be heard?someone had cut the microphone wires...
...Kentucky, was elected Speaker on his first day in the House. That year, 70 of the House's 116 members were new, and Clay appealed to the rookies' thirst for new-blood leadership. Before Clay, the Speaker generally acted as a feeble referee over an undisciplined House mob. A stern taskmaster, Clay brought order and respectability to the House. Members were forbidden to put their feet on their desks, and the hound dog of Virginia's eccentric John Randolph was banished from the chamber on orders of the Speaker. Clay refused to be a mere presiding officer...