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...price of rice in the last two months. When the crowd swelled to 15,000, Dacca's police opened fire "in self-defense." The riots kept on for two days, and finally, after five rioters had been killed and two leading politicos smeared with filth by the mob, East Pakistan's nervous Governor Fazlul Huk gave in and asked the rabble-rousing Awami League Party to form a new provincial government...
...Shotgun in the Stomach. During a tense encounter between the Tennessee National Guard and an armed mob in Oliver Springs. 15 miles west of Clinton, members of the mob elbowed their way through shoulder-to-shoulder guardsmen and leaped at newsmen. The chief danger was to photographers and newsreel men, whose equipment made them conspicuous and vulnerable. While LIFE Photographer Robert W. Kelley was atop a jeep photographing the clash at Oliver Springs, five men, three of them carrying shotguns, advanced on him. Leaping to the ground to escape them, he broke his left leg. In the same melee, Nashville...
...National Guard, under the command of its adjutant general, a World War II captain named Joe W. Henry Jr., who now wears two stars, gave the newsmen little protection. At the Oliver Springs encounter, Henry denounced the photographers to curry favor with the mob. Guardsmen stood by while rioters roughed up newsmen and stole cameras...
...Kentucky National Guard gave the press better protection in the rioting at Clay and Sturgis. But, reported Mrs. Francele H. Armstrong, editor of Kentucky's Henderson Gleaner and Journal. who was herself bullied by the mob at Clay, "the climate was unhealthy for two classes of citizens-newspaper people and Negroes." Before the guard arrived, newsmen trying to approach the Clay school were run out of town, and one managed to escape while a crowd tried to overturn...
Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...