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...Baudouin's presence did nothing to soothe the strikers. Next day a rampaging mob of 5,000 clashed with saber-swinging police in front of the Sabena airlines of fice; in the crowd, someone pulled a pistol and fired wildly, fatally wounding one striker, injuring others. It was the first serious bloodshed, but perhaps not the last, since the Socialists swore to keep the protests going indefinitely...
...single mob formed. Yet much of what they saw in Little Rock, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Tuskegee and Montgomery was little better than they expected. They were heartened to meet white moderates, disheartened at their caution. "The Southern liberal is the only one who can save the South, but he's afraid of leading," said Kenyan Economist James Maina, 28. They admired the "vitality" of Negro sit-in leaders...
...first objective, a fur shop. Naturally, everything that can possibly go wrong goes as wrong as possible, but somehow the charitable criminals manage to creak home with half their haul-the other half is absentmindedly left in a taxi. Stumbling and bumbling from success to hilarious success, the mink mob is soon established as the despair of Scotland Yard and the hope of innumerable philanthropies-including the police orphanage. At the fade, four suspicious characters, dressed in the Renaissance knickers worn by guards in the Tower of London, can be seen slouching purposefully toward the Crown Jewels...
...commission. The city's main hospital, jammed with 500 wounded, and desperately short of water, tapped the swimming pool at the nearby U.S. embassy residence. When U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown held a public distribution of rice flown in by the U.S., he was rushed by a hungry mob and had to flee across a back fence. Not for almost a week did anybody bother to repair the only radio station in town and tell the populace what had happened...
...miners become a lynch mob, roaring their own credo: "Depend on hate! Our gold needs hate!" But the migrants are protected by Captain Sutter, and that night in his barn the woman gives birth to a boy. At dawn the sunlight forms a cross in the stable, and the golddiggers' chorus chants: "We have been fools, we have been fools," then concludes in a closing hymn, "Love turns...