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Outside the stadium, mob rule prevailed. Hundreds of enraged fans stopped buses, taxis and cars, bashing in windows with bricks, bottles and anything else they could lay their hands on. They harassed several journalists and diplomats. In addition, 30 police officers were beaten, four seriously. Nearly 130 fans were arrested, three of whom will receive public trials...
...point Mr. Hoppenstein requested to be able to address the crowd in the vestibule. Our club president went out to communicate this offer to the crowd, but the mob shouted him down...
University officials said yesterday's events marked the first time since 1966 that students forcibly prevented a visiting dignitary from leaving the site of a Harvard appearance. The last such incident, which involved then-Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and a mob of 800, was the first major event of the Vietnam protest movement at Harvard. This is some of what The Crimson reported on November...
Imagine this courtyard full of carefree, scantily clad young people, and then realize that once again New England weather has played a sadistic trick. For what we have here is a mob of goose bumpy, shivering, bluish victims of spring fever. Poor fools myself included who insist that it is spring just because the calendar tells us that it is April Just the other morning Rich Heller wisely warned us that it was going to be only partly sunny and that although it might be in the 60's inland, those near the coast must grapple with 50 degree weather...
...commissioner's office has the opportunity to do the same in baseball. By prohibiting beer at stadiums, Peter Ueberroth can keep the "mob" in their place--at home in front of their TV sets with their 12-packs of Colt 45--while keeping the baseball parks of America safe for real baseball fans...