Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ticker tape drifted over Broadway in vast, swirling clots. All the way to City Hall it sifted onto the block-deep mob that surged past police barricades, shoved between cars of the motorcade, slowed the parade to a hesitant crawl. Atop the back seat of an open convertible rode Jack Kennedy, grinning, waving, reaching out to touch one after another of the forest of hands; Wife Jackie sat beside him in white coat, hat. gloves and wide-eyed wonder at the crush ("It felt like the sides of the car were bending"). Even Mayor Robert Wagner, whose good Democratic organization...
...Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, was born. The Turkish state radio boomed the news that Greeks had done it. Turkish tempers, already exacerbated by the long quarrel with Greece over Cyprus, flared into a night of shameful violence against the 100,000 Greeks living in Istanbul. Within hours a mob armed with pickaxes and crowbars marched down Istanbul's Independence Avenue yelling "Cyprus is Turkish, not Greek!" A Greek Orthodox priest was scalped and another burned alive, 78 Greek churches were set afire and 4,000 Greek stores looted, before Turkish troops and police finally decided to quell...
...bombing, President Bayar and Premier Menderes were in Istanbul; at 6 p.m. they calmly boarded the express for Ankara, figuring that the mob would only smash a few Greek windows and break a few Greek heads. But the mob got out of hand, beating Greeks and sacking stores with abandon. The Istanbul governor panicked, tried frantically to reach Bayar and Menderes, finally managed to get a telephone message to a stationmaster, who stopped the train. In the middle of the night, Bayar and Menderes raced back to Istanbul by car, where they declared martial law and finally ended the carnage...
...Congolese are supposed to hate the Belgians, but daily a wizened black appeared at the big statue of King Albert to tend the flowers and clean away the scraps of paper; no mob had thought to topple Albert or the big figure of Leopold II that stands before the Parliament building. Léopoldville has no visible revenue, but somehow the lights functioned, the garbage was collected and the water ran normally. Government departments were hardly functioning, but to the utter amazement of Manhattan financiers, a check arrived at Dillon. Read & Co.'s Wall Street offices from the Congo...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Robert Stack begins his second year as Government Agent Eliot Ness, battling with the oldtime Chicago mob in one of TV's most successful shows...