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...executive committee voted, 96 to 87, to replace Martinaud-Déplat by a seven-man administrative committee. Back from lunch came the delegates, full of vim and vin rouge, for the rest of the battle. When Mendès took the rostrum, there was a crashing ovation. A fist fight broke out on one side of the hall...
Such quiet restoration of the peace is typical of the University Police forces it almost always manages to quell annual springtime outbursts, or full-fledged football riots without wielding a club or swinging a fist. Instead, Lt. Matthew J. Toohy's 33-man force employs the subtler methods learned from many years of experience with College students...
...Italy's underground in World War II, he served as Minister of Industry and Commerce in various governments during the Allied occupation. The Allies found Gronchi a proud and stubborn man. Once when Gronchi protested a law demanded by the Allied Control Commission, an Allied officer banged his fist on the table and told Gronchi: "I give you seven days. It is ample. I shall expect your draft by then." Gronchi coldly slid the folder across the table and said: "Draw up the law yourself. We shall have to submit to it, because we are a defeated people...
Banging his fist on his desk, Nehru declared that NATO is "a powerful protector of colonialism," which has had the "gross impertinence" to hint to India that it would protect Portuguese Goa. "We should not take any sides in the cold war," said Nehru. "It is an intolerable humiliation for any nation of Asia or Africa to degrade itself by becoming a camp follower of one or the other of the power blocs . . . We will not join either bloc because that means losing our identity...
...course of eliminating opposition to Communist rule in rugged mountainous Shensi province, Kao Kang, a squat, square-jawed warlord, learned all about the precipice treatment for despised rivals. By 1935 he had Shensi so much under his fist that Mao Tse-tung marched his harassed legions 6,000 miles to get to the safety of Kao's country. Only then did Shensi Peasant Kao, 33, and already eight years a party member, learn to read and write...