Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King (right) and Queen are shown entering Fogg as throngs of spectators look on. Students even climbed up the brick gate across the street to secure a better view...
...only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready; there was no outer wall around the stadium to bar gate-crashers...
...inaugural corrida had been advertised as the little republic's first high-style bullfight, and all 15,000 seats had been sold, some for as much as $12. So Impresario Toriello decided that the show must go on. The gate-crashers, with no fence to stop them, flocked into the plaza. Soon many choice ringside seats on the shady side had barefoot occupants. By fight time the plaza was packed and some 8,000 angry ticket-holders could not get in. Inside, the unticketed aficionados howled: "We want bulls...
After an hour's delay, Toriello made a new decision: "The show must not go on." "Thief!" "Gangster!" yelled the gate-crashers, showering the arena with bottles and refuse. Then, joined by angry ticketholders, they grabbed wooden chairs and seat cushions, and began hurling them into the arena. Breaking down the wooden ringside barrier, they heaped the debris in the arena and set fire to it all. They smashed half the toilets beneath the stands. When it was all over, 23 had been hurt, including eight cops...
Instead, three friars met them at the cemetery gate. They carried the coffin, chanting psalms of resurrection, to a freshly dug grave, where one of them read the Office of the Dead. Long after the family had gone, the friars remained by the fresh mound in prayer...