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Then, in 1954, Reformer Albert L. Patterson won the Democratic nomination for Alabama attorney general on the promise to clean up Phenix City; before he could take office, he was shot to death on Phenix City's streets. (His son John won the office, later became Governor.) That tore it; public indignation followed, a errand jury went to work. By the end of the year, Phenix City's bawdyhouses were padlocked, and the National Guard was called in to burn the slot machines...
...Moscow denied the whole thing, but according to new details trickling to the West, party officials were stunned by the outbreak, not only because of the sudden violence, but because the rioters revealed sophisticated political attitudes that made Moscow suspect the existence of an organized underground. Scores of youths tore up their party cards in public, others shouted such slogans as "Back to Lenin" and "Down with the Deceiver." Even the local army garrison of Russians sympathized with the rioters and refused to fire into the protesting crowd. The soldiers who did were central Asian Uzbeks and Kirghizes...
...That's What's Wrong." Romney tore through Michigan on his people-to-people campaign, propelled like a man with a divine mission. He drove 37,000 miles, flew 13,000 more, knocked on 2,000 doors, shook more than 100,000 hands at factories, shopping centers and meetings. He tried not to label himself a Republican. None of his campaign literature identified his party. When pressed, he said: "I'm a citizen who is a Republican, not a Republican who is incidentally a citizen...
...Wardrobe. When she got up, she tore through "Rockabye your baby with a Dixie melody," hit all the right spots, and drew a tightrope champion's applause when she reached the other end. Singing Swanee, she pointed to an imaginary note high in the air, raised her sights, and shot a clean hole right through the middle. More applause. With a trip offstage for throat spray, she went on, getting better and better, until at the end some 300 people rushed the stage to shake her hand...
...Prague, demonstrators tore the Stars and Stripes from the U.S. embassy flag pole and smashed windows in a noisy, well-organized rally. In East Berlin, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht let 250,000 workers and students off for the afternoon as processions marched down Unter den Linden bearing placards labeled "Rescue Cuba" and "Ami go home...