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...Africans. From the black ghetto of Highfield, 5,000 Africans marched on the police station demanding that they be arrested as were the N.D.P. leaders. Next day a mass strike crippled Salisbury as 20,000 Africans descended on Whitehead's office in the city center. When the mob refused to disperse, the police lobbed tear-gas shells into their midst, scattering them in all directions...
...Napoleon who inadvertently ended her ordeal. Toppled from power after a series of disastrous defeats, nearly lynched by a mob, Godoy fled into exile, never to return. The countess lived on in Spain with at least one consoling memory...
...tough, balding Communist Giancarlo Pajetta and Republican Ludovico Camangi marched to Porta San Paolo to lay a wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into the mob...
...Japan would prevail and the President could be assured at least a reasonably cordial welcome. However, one wonders what those same experts meant when they hoped that the Japanese police would take firmer action. Are we to presume they meant that the police should open fire on the mob in order that the itinerary of a globe-trotting head of state would not be upset...
...signers-Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo and Carlo Carra-held a "Futurist Evening" in Turin, they set off a riot. In Bologna, Carra was nearly killed when an exasperated antifuturist hurled a bench at him, and in Treviso the three painters had to be rescued by the police from a mob. But the searing colors and frenzied designs of the futurists had their purpose: to depict not the surface world but the latent powers asleep within...