Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Divine Mob." For Velasco Ibarra it was an old story. First elected in 1934, he has been President four times, has completed only one term. A spellbinding orator who swings from right to left to suit his audience, he was elected last year by the votes and demonstrations of what he calls "the divine mob." But in office, he did little to ease Ecuador's chronic problems. Promised campaigns for land reform, slum clearance, roads and industrial development were slow in coming; living costs rose 30% in six months, wages failed to keep pace. The final straw...
...recent tour through the backlands of his mountainous country, Peru's Premier Pedro Beltran, 64, a descendant of the Spanish conquistadors, stopped off in the ancient Inca city of Cuzc0,11,200 ft. up in the Andes. A howling, Communist-led mob of Indian peasants, descendants of the defeated Incas, greeted him with a barrage of rocks and cries of "To the wall!" Few places in Latin America know a wider chasm between rich and poor, between the white aristocracy and the Indian masses, who, 400 years after the conquest, still live in misery. Though Beltran is an alert...
...student mob, estimated at 350, had barely completed serenading Barnard and Holmes Halls, and were trying their luck at Moors when the police intervened. When asked for a statement, one of the officers said "Well they're all right here so if they go back through the Square and make trouble we'll be in holy Hell. they're all right here...
...annoyed 'Cliffie in the mob was overheard to say, "What's going on? We do this about seven times a year...
Upon the removal of the band from Moors Hall steps to the cozier Cabot By-Up, and a feeble attempt at mob rallying by some off-key singers, the students dispersed. The entire festivities had lasted about twenty minutes...