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Bowie and Joseph E. Johnson '27, vice-chairman of the Visiting Committee and President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, then fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes...
Consulting the Workers. Schnabel is convinced that if he had fled to West Germany before the Wall went up, he would now be a millionaire. But he says he is not sorry. "You can't take it with you, and I'm not sure I'd have it, with all the gangster methods of competition." He boasts that when his bridal gowns and pantsuits are sold in West Germany, the stores switch his East German labels for fake Paris labels and double the price...
...standoff continued through the night as State police advanced, firing cannisters of tear gas into the crowd Students fled down Plympton, DeWolf, and Bow Sts, tossing bricks and rocks. Many protestors fled into the courtyards of Quincy House and Lowell House. At one point police charged into Lowell Quincy, Adams, and Claverly to make arrests, State Police, making a sweep down the street, fired several gas cannisters into the Quincy courtyard and the front entrance of Lowell House. Gas fumes choked students in Claverly...
Cuba is a dictatorship, no doubt. But that is the way of young revolutions. In the 1770's and 80's, American colonists shot pro-monarchists, suppressed all pro-British publications, and seized the property of royalists who had fled to Canada. The French-without whom victory would have been difficult-helped considerably. To the nobles, "freedom" had died; for the Americans self-determination had been gained. Those who felt it wasn't necessary ("peaceful channels") look quite silly in retrospect. All new systems go through a dictatorial phase, and that is tragic. But outside powers who do all they...
...Appointed by Hindenburg in 1930, BrUning tried everything from stern economic measures to rule by decree in an effort to hold the country together Nothing worked, and his near-dictatorial powers earned him many enemies among industrialists and landowners, who turned Hindenburg against him. Bruning resigned in 1932, then fled Germany during the 1934 "blood purge" and later taught at Harvard...