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...they were under orders not to intervene when they could avoid doing so." In fact, when a demonstrator got caught in the crush, unable to light his cigarette, a bobby "reached forward and politely struck flame from his lighter." The police, she reports, "even joined the demonstrators in singing Auld Lang Syne." All in all, "we witnessed in the Demo something like a medieval carnival in modern setting, with everybody changing places, the fool becoming king for a day, the police merging with the populace...
...soon it was clear that the Man from La Mancha theme will be like Auld Lange Syne by mid-season. The only merriment for Boston rooters came in the ninth inning...
...hoisting a total of 1,003 lbs. to win the middleweight championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). TV tries hard to forget its former favorites, but here's a cup of kindness for Auld Prime Timers Arthur Godfrey and Sid Caesar...
While thousands of revelers swayed to the strains of Auld Lang Syne and The Star-Spangled Banner, prim ladies in tweed suits feverishly uprooted all the chrysanthemums recently planted for a permanent park, stuffed them into their pocketbooks or pinned them onto their hats. Tipsy men wantonly ripped signs from buildings, kicked over trash baskets, waded in the Unisphere fountain, and shinned up the 20-ft. poles near the United Nations Plaza to capture the flags. One man completely gutted a statue of King Tut near the Egyptian Pavilion, another attacked a copy of an ancient vase outside the Greek...