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...first collegiate athlete to win the championship since Harvard's Germain S. Glidden took the title...
...observers say it would resemble a graveyard, if only it were a little livelier. The thought of public violence in Zurich is utterly improbable. Yet last week there were student riots right in downtown Zurich- and they were just as violent as anything seen recently on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or on the Columbia University campus...
True to Type. All over Paris, there were scenes reminiscent of the street battles of the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. On the Boulevard St. Germain, a workman dressed in blue overalls attacked the pavement with a heavy, pointed bar in an attempt to free the first paving stone, which would liberate the others. As soon as he had succeeded, a grandmotherly woman took her place in a line of Parisians that quickly formed to pass the stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade...
Using their own cars, emblazoned with newly painted red and green crosses, the students ran an improvised ambulance service for wounded demonstrators. Careening through the crowded streets, their horns blaring, the cars were as much a menace as an aid to the demonstrators. On the Boulevard St. Germain, one bearded student tried to clear a lane for the cars by shouting: "If you get your head busted by an ambulance, it's not a political...
Burning Cars. That served only to rally broad support for the troublemakers. Massing by the thousands along the Boulevard St, Germain and cross streets, students ripped up paving stones and steel posts, bombarded steel-helmeted police from behind barricades of overturned and burning cars. The police fought back with nightsticks and tear-gas grenades in a battle lasting some seven hours...