Word: plainclothesmen
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...real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely. To make sure nothing else flew away, he had 200-odd private policemen on hand to watch his guests and their estimated $9,000,000 worth of jewels. The cops were impeccably clad as 18th century plainclothesmen, but not all the guests were so socially correct. Washington Socialite Gwendolyn Cafritz burst in, looking very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli whip this up only yesterday; I had simply no time to find anything 18th century," Screen Star "Zizi" Jeanmaire (Hans Christian Andersen) turned...
...published a cartoon of a panga knife labeled "Mau Mau" piercing a black cloud and hanging over a white family, with a caption: "Vote Nationalist to avert this." Brigadier C. I. Rademeyer, head of South Africa's Criminal Investigation Department, quietly made it known that up to ten plainclothesmen were attending all political rallies, mixing with the crowds. Since the cops were assumed to be progovernment, United Party members were alarmed. Asked the Rand Daily Mail: "Are they spies?" Nationalist hoodlums tried to break up United Party rallies by throwing stones, tomatoes and eggs, by cutting off electric power...
...assemble at Praça da Sé, before the city's unfinished cathedral, for a "March of the Empty Pots." Policemen with loudspeakers warned the strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into the mob. Tear-gas bombs ricocheted off iron-shuttered shops and cobbled streets. Fifteen strikers were wounded, one cop stabbed...
...visited the Tower, had a good look at Windsor Castle, took in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House and presented roses and gladioli to Ballerina Moira Shearer. When they were lucky enough to catch him on one of his unannounced rounds and to see past the screen of plainclothesmen, bobbies and motorcycle cops that surrounded him, Britons also got a good look at Tito. There were scattered boos from Catholics irate over Belgrade's persistent mistreatment of the church, but mostly the London crowds were curious, polite and unenthusiastic...
Next morning 20,000 citizens crowded into Capitol Plaza to hear the Sam Il Day speeches. Armed national police, on the watch for assassins, faced alternately towards and away from the crowd, while plainclothesmen peeped out from behind the pillars of the Capitol building. Illness kept President Syngman Rhee confined to his house. But over the speaker's platform a huge muslin banner proclaimed his defiant message...