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There were 47 shows in ten days. At each, there was the usual crush to get in; flowers fell from vases and were trampled under stiletto heels; ordinarily well-bred ladies pinned oldtime friends to the salon walls, picked their pockets for the proper credentials, and raced upstairs to jockey for front-row seats...
...Wise Act." But this time Tshombe had little choice. Blue-helmeted U.N. troops controlled nearly all the major rail and population centers of Katanga province, and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant was not backing down on his threat to crush Katanga's wily secessionist...
...France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
...tribunal of the land. They have done the very thing prohibited by the Constitution in taking over the function of the legislature. This court, together with the hungry, mad, ruthless, ungodly, power-mad men who would change this Government from a democracy to a totalitarian dictatorship have attempted to crush the people of this state through the excuse of upholding and enforcing an unlawful order that had not become final...
...gives a seaman 24 cuts of the cat for calling him a thief, the lieutenant reasonably inquires: "If one punishes a man so severely for a minor infraction, what does one do for a serious offense?" When the captain turns the ship unexpectedly, causing a tun of water to crush another seaman, the lieutenant icily lets him know that he is a murderer...