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...limousine carrying the First Ladies was forced onto the sidewalk. An hour later, rioting broke out again near where De Gaulle was to lunch. This time, police submachine guns sprayed bullets over the crowd. Tear gas filled the square. Fire hoses broke up charging groups while police and firemen were pelted by stones. The toll: 26 injured, six by gunshot...
Managers of each building received cards bearing a Secret Service phone number, were ordered to call immediately if they spotted any weapons or heard suspicious conversations. Two hundred El Paso firemen were assigned to traffic control, thus freeing city cops to watch the crowd and buildings. Armed Texas Border Patrolmen were stationed on roofs along the route. They carried walkie-talkies and could flash instant reports on any suspicious activities to the Secret Service. Whenever Johnson plunged into the mass of curbside spectators, he was surrounded by circles of Secret Service men, FBI agents and city detectives...
...crumpled street signs, uprooted shrubs, took gravel right out of roadways. Blowing at 115 m.p.h., Cleo knocked down so many power lines that more than 60,000 telephones in Dade County were without service. At least two dozen fires broke out in Miami, and winds were so high that firemen could not cope with them for hours. At Opa-Locka Airport, a DC-3 was lifted 50 ft. off the ground, flopping helplessly at the end of its ropes. A runaway freight car was blown eight miles from Hollywood to Fort Lauderdale, finally crashing into a railway station that...
...Paterson a dozen punks boarded a bus, smashed windows and terrorized passengers. Negroes in a third-floor tenement rained debris down on a group of cops, then slammed the window. Firemen quickly scrambled up a ladder, smashed the window and seized two men and a woman. When bottles came hurtling out of another building, a flying wedge of cops charged in, flushed nine youths and arrested all but one-a child of seven or eight whom Mayor Graves whacked once on the behind and sent home...
...Singapore today is the wealthiest city in Southeast Asia. But the Malays simply said "Tida apa" ("It doesn't matter"), and rationalized their lowly condition with the help of the Koran, which they interpret as condemning commercial endeavor. As a result, the Malays are largely chauffeurs, street cleaners, firemen and cops, while the bulk of the Chinese are shopkeepers or larger entrepreneurs...