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...before, even though, from the earliest days in the Sierra Maestra 28 months ago, he had made it clear that revolutionary movements, coming to power in turmoil, need not-and dare not -call immediate elections. "Do we need elections?" Castro demanded of the crowd below him. Obediently the mob roared back...
Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a bookcase on wheels. Instead of vanishing into classrooms, the kids camped in noisy huddles all over one huge room. With teachers hopping from huddle to huddle, the scene sometimes took on the look of a Red Cross disaster station, but it was routine teaching at the free-form grade school in Carson City, Mich...
Sweet young Wheaton girls, at least 150 of them, strung up Fidel Castro in effigy last night. Taking care not to sell their madras skirts, the lynch mob danced 'round the hanging-tree-Maypole, staying "God Bless America," and other patriotic songs...
...Embassy. The mob, 20,000 strong, surged from downtown Lisbon up the broad, tree-lined Avenida da Liberdades, and hove to in front of the U.S. embassy right on schedule at 6:30 p.m., while there was still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash...
...wonder the King wanted to call it quits. The mob of Paris forced him from his Byzantine cocoon of ceremony at Versailles to rule in Paris. They wanted bread. He promised them bread. As for the mob who butchered his guards and jostled his coach all the way to Paris, they hailed his generosity, "Long live the baker!" and Queen Marie Antoinette was saluted as "the baker's wife." It was time to go. In this whole bewildering montage of scenes, it is on the confused King-and all the confusing attitudes held toward him-that the mind focuses...