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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hiring a Latin Quarter hall, some 10,000 demonstrators gathered to demand a negotiated peace in Algeria. They were mostly students but had the support of Catholic labor unions, Left Socialists and several thousand workers just let out at the government-owned Renault auto factory. As the meeting broke up, gangs of right-wingers attacked the students. Helmeted police charged in, swinging batons and lead-weighted capes. When the street was finally cleared, dozens lay on the bloody pavement. More than 500 rioters were arrested and nearly 1,000 injured...
...decorous introduction by Johnson. The crowd wasn't much interested in the speech, although its cheered wildly at the end as hundreds of balloons fell from bags hung on the ceiling. It probably looked good on TV, but the mezzanines--which could have accomodated another six or seven thousand people--were closed off, and there were a thousand empty seats on the floor...
...several thousand who waited patiently outside in the rain for the Columbus Circle rally got the real treat of the evening. Here Kennedy and Johnson, who had been restrained inside by the time limit and prepared texts, let themselves...
...most part the crowds, although containing many teenagers, were made up of middle-aged and young couples. Considering the circumstances, the turnouts for the Senator were often phenomenal. Beginning his New England campaign in Bridgeport Sunday morning at 12:30 a.m., he was met at the airport by several thousand people who had waited in the rain more than two hours for his arrival. As he motorcaded through the small towns of Shelton, Derby, and Ansonia he stopped to give speeches...
Following the great wind, says a survivor, came "waves as big as mountains, roaring like a thousand thunderclaps." Huts were washed away "like weeds." In a pathetic attempt to keep from being swept away, people clasped hands to form circles, with their children in the middle. There were few trees to climb to precarious safety; most trees had long ago been chopped by villagers for fuel...