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...this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked streets with boulders and gasoline drums, tore up lampposts, ripped down fences. They smashed statues of Mahatma Gandhi (a Gujarati himself), burned Desai in effigy, flourished pictures of Nehru hung with old shoes as a gesture of despisal. Mobs, sometimes 10,000 strong, stormed police stations, looted Gujarati shops, flung electric light bulbs filled with nitric acid...
DURING the congressional debate over Federal regulation of natural-gas producers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, who favors regulation, tore into the gas lobby for trying "to put pressure on me." But Senator Potter also had a powerful lobby working for his side: representatives of scores of Eastern utilities and big unions, plus a small-producers'-and-consumers' committee headed by Indianapolis' former Mayor Alex M. Clark...
...city sacred to three religions, mobs pushed through the Damascus Gate, singing and shouting slogans against the Baghdad pact and for immediate elections. Once again Palestinian refugees were in the mob's forefront. Gangs attacked the U.S. consulate, and for the second time in a month tore down the Stars and Stripes and trampled it in the street: Marine guards and Vice Consul Slator Blackiston drove the hooligans away with tear gas and pistols...
...Dreyfus case had never happened, some writer undoubtedly would have invented it--so perfect is it for dramatic treatment. The case almost tore the Third Republic of France apart, involved at its height some of the most articulate men in modern history, and finally trailed off into an ending that was both touching and ludicrous. The movie Dreyfus, made in Germany in 1930, captures only some of the drama of the incident, mostly because it attacks the story with the somewhat unfocused view of a documentary...
...Bois de Boulogne (afterwards, Lola looked smashing in her bereaved-mistress' weeds) set her firmly in the center of what would now be called cafe society. But her real career began when she was engaged to dance in Munich and bewitched old King Ludwig (her bodice tore at just the right moment and place). Lola moved into the posh palace he built for her in Munich and prepared to run the country. Then, as now, advanced ideas were a prime source of self-advertisement, and Lola had absorbed a set of "bold and novel" notions through the pores...