Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour, the parade oozed by until a trailing car with a loudspeaker advised the faithful to gather at City Hall for a rally featuring Bob Hope. Parades were one thing, and speeches quite another, especially from the point of view of five-year-olds, so the mob of 150,000 watered down to an audience of 20,000 or so at City Hall...
...mood was ugly in New York City too (see box). A rally at Bryant Park, where some 20,000 New Yorkers had gathered peacefully, was disrupted by 100 militants. A mob of white Black Panther sympathizers rampaged through Columbia University, breaking windows and throwing stink bombs...
...Kevin Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the violence last February that resulted in the burning of the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America was senseless and unnecessary. When an angry mob of radicals tried once more to fire the bank, Kevin and a small group of moderate students took their stand. After a night of attacks repelled by 250 police using tear gas, the students, in the hope of avoiding bloodshed, asked the police to stay out of the area and let them put down the radicals and defend the bank...
...three days, crowds rumbled through Amman carrying signs saying AMERICAN PHANTOMS KILL ARAB CHILDREN. Finally a mob of nearly 1,000 burned the U.S. Information Service library, while another crowd of 800 roared on to the U.S. embassy. Amman police and soldiers were nowhere to be seen. Brushing past six Bedouin guards, the crowd stormed the embassy compound, burned four official cars and replaced the American flag with the green, black and red emblem of Palestine. As a parting gesture, the demonstrators ripped the Seal of the U.S. from the embassy's wall, paraded it through Amman, then trampled...
...Skimming" Profits. The companies' winning streak started shortly after Invisible Billionaire Howard Hughes bought the Desert Inn and the Sands in 1967. Rumors ran through Wall Street: the Strip was becoming respectable. Mob-connected casino operators who had been hounded by the Internal Revenue Service for "skimming" profits before paying their taxes were selling out to a new generation of professional managers. And the new casino owners seemed to be on to a sure thing. Last year, for example, Las Vegas gaming tables took the gamblers for $338 million, 24% more than in 1968. But soon, casino company stocks...