Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They have a good time, that Princeton crowd," mused New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes as a barrage of cherry bombs blitzed the gubernatorial front lawn. That Princeton crowd, a mob of 1,500 students, was launching the 1963 Intercollegiate Spring Riot Season by burning benches, smashing railroad cars, tipping Volkswagens, and rending fences. Then off to nearby Westminster Choir College, where from dormitory windows some of the girls defended their honor by tossing out panties and others by tossing out potted plants. When the bonfires cooled next morning, 14 of Princeton's fiercest Tigers were booked and bailed...
...dispatched the Congolese army commander, General Joseph Mobutu, and units of red-bereted paracommandos to the police compound. Ordering his men not to shoot, Mobutu opened the camp's gate and strode in alone and unarmed to face the mutineers. Roughly he yanked the ringleaders out of the mob one by one, and demanded that they give up. With that the revolt collapsed, and Mobutu-his well-creased trousers stained with a spot of blood-ordered the mutiny's leaders stripped to their underwear and driven off to jail through the jeering crowd at the camp...
...there? The Queen of Greece. And much to the surprise of Singer Marti Stevens, 31, daughter of U.S. Movie Magnate Nicholas Schenck, that's just who it was-frightened Queen Frederika, 46, and daughter Princess Irene, 20, fleeing into residential Three Kings Yard from a mob of Greek leftist demonstrators outside Claridge's hotel in London. "I offered her cognac," Marti explained, "but she said she preferred Scotch and soda." A diplomatic choice, for British officials were red-faced with apologies for the apparent snafu of security measures. But Frederika swiftly regained composure, sent Marti an autographed photo...
Princeton president Robert F. Goheen condemned the disturbance as a "shocking display of individual and collective hooliganism," the Daily Princetonian reported. "As a surrender to raw, mass impulse," Goheen said, "and as an occasion for mob violence, any riot is reprehensible." Officials have indicated that several students may be expelled...
When Judy isn't scaring up a bogus Red-underground menace to get her man, the handsome Ugly American consul (Joseph Campanella), she drones through some tuneless tunes decomposed by Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary. The hula mob masses occasionally for dance gymnastics, the kind that gives playgoers clusterphobia...