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...started May 15, when the university fenced off a valuable, three-acre lot that it owned and planned to develop. Police evicted students and street people, who had made the tract into a pleasant, albeit illegal, People's Park (TIME, May 23). When a rock- and pipe-throwing mob of students and radicals protested, Alameda County sheriff's deputies-dubbed by students the "Blue Meanies"-sprayed them with birdshot and buckshot. One bystander, James Rector, 25, died last week of buckshot wounds. Rector, a drifter and probation violator, had been watching the fracas from a rooftop. Police fired...
Firemen drew sniper fire as they attempted to douse the flames, and outnumbered police watched helplessly at times as the street gangs rampaged. One man, trying to escape from his burning car, was thrown back into it by a howling mob, and died. By the time the four days of race war and civil strife had run their course, the General Hospital's morgue was so crowded that bodies were put into plastic bags and hung on ceiling hooks. Government officials, attempting to play down the extent of the disaster, insisted that the death toll was only 104. Western...
...Donovan's Reef best reveals Ford's emotional range, The Sun Shines Bright (1953) is the most obvious choice to illustrate this ordering. The grouping of the townspeople around the levy in the first few shots suggests harmonies confirmed in the unified behavior of the lynch mob and the choir in front of the church. The scenes of Confederate and GAR veterans' meetings emphasize the auditorium corridors, the deliberateness of physical movement through them, and the relationship of the auditorium seats to the main speaker and the flags that surround him. The last reel of Sun Shines Bright contains...
...American education. A liberal school's administration and faculty, in a dramatic gesture given worldwide attention, bowed to the unreasonable demands of an armed minority led by a demagogue who threatened leading administrators and faculty members over a university-owned radio station and backed by a foolish mob of guilt-ridden, self-flagellating whites finding "institutionalized racism" behind every bush...
...took over an economics department office. This year, demands for an effectively black-controlled Center for Afro-American Studies were met following a series of semiviolent and disruptive demonstrations. Months later, three alumni recruiting for the Chase Manhattan Bank were ousted by administrators faced by an angry and destructive mob. No students have been punished for such acts...