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...Paris?had arranged a hero's welcome. There were two dazzling escorts: first, 50 epauleted motorcycle police, then the plumed, sword-bearing cavalry of the Garde Républicaine. Gay banners of red, white and blue bedecked the streets; kiosks were dotted with magazine pictures of the visitors. The huge crowd???including some Latin Quarter students who hoisted a Harvard banner and others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than a million...
Catching sight of a policeman in the crowd???the same policeman who arrested him for making salt at Dandi year ago (TIME, April 14)?Satyagrahi Gandhi called out: "You know I am on my way to make salt again?and will you arrest me once again...
...terms of a football crowd???not many. In terms of a conference of undergraduates interested in Christian missionary movements, they made at Indianapolis last week "the largest student gathering ever held in the United States...
...They fired over the heads of the mob. Armed men in the mob fired back. A man standing close to Mayor Seabrooks was killed. Others were wounded. The militia called for machine guns, and a detachment hurried to the scene. With this reinforcement, the soldiers began to disperse the crowd???not without disturbance. The Chief of Police was struck by a brick; another missile hit a National Guard officer in the face and laid him out. Not until five hours after the disturbance had begun was truce restored...