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...recall the famous 1926 riot in the Abbey Theater. The volatile Irish theatergoers were looking forward to a notable event: the world premiere of a new SEAN O'CASEY play. Mindful of the past, the law was ready. The first-night crowd was peppered with uniformed police and plainclothesmen, alert for action should the Dubliners repeat their 1926 objections to an O'Casey tilt with convention. Lester Bernstein of TIME'S London bureau was on hand to report the opening night of The Bishop's Bonfire (see THEATER...
...excitement was running high in Bern. As hundreds of citizens converged on the Schlösslistrasse, plainclothesmen cordoned the district. At 7:30 a.m. the Swiss Federal Council met in an extraordinary session. Other Communist legations were demanding protection...
Dedijer summoned foreign correspondents to a press conference at his home, but when they got there, they found the house dark and guarded by nine plainclothesmen, who said that Dedijer had canceled the conference. Vlado Dedijer was no longer a free...
Last week in Mexico City, plainclothesmen in a black Buick glided up to Jaime Rosenberg as he walked along a street, and arrested him. Without success, they also sought Cruz Wer. Both were to be held for hearings to decide whether they should be extradited for trial in Guatemala, where the Supreme Military Tribunal has gathered more than 1,000 pages of testimony charging that Cruz Wer and Rosenberg were "archgenocides who cruelly ordered the massacres of innocent citizens...
Except for the plainclothesmen Toohy does not plan any changes in his force or their routine besides assigning extra men to cover the Houses during football weekends, which has always been a department procedure...