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One group of young hotheads rushed to the main railway station, breaking win dows inside and smashing the front of the station post office. When mounted gendarmes galloped up, the rioters hurled firecrackers at the feet of the police horses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Empire Poverty | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Sunday a mob attacked the Metropolitan Cathedral in downtown Buenos Aires hurling stones and fruit while it chanted "Long live Perón, down with the Pope." As a priest sang a Mass inside, a crowd gathered on the steps of the cathedral while opponents hurled stones and rotten fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Defiant Faith | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

On the drawing boards since early in World War II, the $50,000 Scenicruiser incorporates some features first intro duced last year in Greyhound's Highway Traveler (6-ft., nonglare picture win dows, a compressed-air suspension system for easy riding), adds some brand-new ones of its own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: The Hound Steps Out | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

To the Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Color Line | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Beneath "the surface placidity Philadelphians knew that the possibility of real race trouble was present as never before. Philadelphia has 270,000 Negroes, but it has no Harlem: the Negro sections are small, scattered pockets throughout the city. On the first night of the strike, in half-a-dozen sections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Philadelphia | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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