Word: heckler
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...proceedings turned particularly lively with the appearance in Plymouth of querulous Quintin Hogg, formerly Lord Hailsham, one of the more erratic of Tory politicians. As Minister of Education and Science in the Conservative Cabinet, Hogg was routinely telling his audience about the superior virtues of the Tories when a heckler shouted: "What about Profumo...
...consistent heckling of virtually every political leader has brought responses which have stirred interest in the election. Sir Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...Businessman John Ryan, last week invaded Munich's annual Oktoberfest and, surrounded by eight U.S. students brandishing Johnson's picture, delivered a rousing get-out-the-vote speech in front of a tent advertising Löwenbräu beer. He was repeatedly interrupted by a Goldwater heckler in the front row who, Ryan snorts, "must have been a colonel." The Johnson organization in Britain is the largest in Europe, and, with such guest speakers as Actors Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick, has raised nearly $10,000, which is spent...
...sophomores said they entered the shop at 12:40 a.m. and that without any provocation, one of the youths began insulting Burrows, a Negro. When Lowell told the heckler "to mind his own business," another of the four attacked him, setting off a general fight. Greenberg, who had been sitting in the restaurant, joined in to help the outnumbered Harvard students...
...Vote Rhodesian Front for a white Christmas!" shouted a heckler at a Salisbury rally as the campaign for Southern Rhodesia's 65-seat Parliament wound up last week. The man he interrupted-Sir Roy Welensky, white supremacist Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland-has never settled for anything less, but this time "Royboy" was up against an opponent who outbleached him. The result was a disastrous defeat for Welensky and his United Federal Party...