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...news spread through Masan, 10,000 infuriated citizens, many of them high school students, flocked to the building where Kim's corpse lay and demanded the body "so we can take it to Seoul and show it to the National Assembly." When the authorities refused, the crowd ran amuck. Raging through the streets, shouting demands for the resignation of President Syngman Rhee, the rioters sacked Masan's city hall, the local offices of Rhee's Liberal Party, the home of Masan's mayor and a brewery that a local pol allegedly received as a bribe...
...Thrashing like a windmill run amuck, Indiana University Sophomore Mike Troy, 19, tied his own 53:1 American record for the 110-yd. butterfly, broke his American record for the 22O-yd. butterfly by 4.4 sec. with a time...
...charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
...Unapproachable Greatness." This week Oscar will start skidding amuck two evenings a week (for $900 a performance -$300 more than KCOP-TV gave him) on KHJ-TV's Channel 9. By now knowing which side its customers are buttered on, Philco was expected to tag along prudently with its peevish star. Promised Oscar: "I'll treat them like Queen Mary visiting the poor...
...face. Husband No. 3 was almost as big a lush as Diana, and together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes) in a Manhattan dive, and one night she ran amuck and wound up in the alcoholic ward. That's where the "unholy ghost" (as Author Frank is known on Publisher's Row) caught up with her and invited her to take the bestseller cure...