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...power of the real anti-Americans was made clear in the Lebanese seaport of Tripoli. There a mob, demonstrating against the assassination of a pro-Nasser editor, ran amuck, burned the USIA library. Before the riot was over, some 15 were dead, another 30 wounded...
...well might these (unseated) knights-errant despair at the running-amuck of their Congressional charges, for on the budget issue, the behavior of a large segment of the Democrats in Congress has been disgraceful. Perhaps the actions of Lyndon Johnson and the Southern Democrats might have been predicted as easily as those of Knowland and the hard-shell Republicans. But in following his conservative Texan instincts, Johnson has punched holes in one of the more important Democratic balloons--that is, its representation of itself as the party of idealism. Cynics will maintain that very few people vote Democratic for reasons...
...Larson whipped into action when he got the first report that prisoners had jumped a guard, wounded him with knife stabs and taken over everything but the administration building. The inmates also grabbed 29 hostages, including twelve members of a visiting Mormon church basketball team. While the prisoners ran amuck, smashing doors and windows, setting fires, Larson rushed a mobile unit right into the grounds, 2½ hours ahead of rival KUTV. A KTVT camera in the administration building picked up shots of prisoners at the end of a corridor behind bars that marked off their territory...
...from their high place with such a thud, that the intellectual seemed to come into his own. But war and prosperity brought the practical men back, and the nation's band of intellectuals seemed to be tuning up for another song of despair. While Joe McCarthy was running amuck, a few did lose their heads, but the McCarthy flurry only tended to obscure one central fact. Far from repeating the attitudes of the '205, the American intellectual stayed at home and even found himself feeling at home. His perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society...
...come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came, despite their Neanderthal getup, behaved as circumspectly and with the same dogged gaiety as any like group in Sacramento or Scarsdale. But to the zealous guardsmen the party was saturnalia run amuck, and so they reported to their commanding officer, who alerted the military at Malaga. But the military could find no law against private gatherings of cave men and their women, and unaware of the commotion they had caused, the party guests went home...