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...choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been used in Columbus, Ohio, says Chief Robert Baus, attacks on policemen have dropped...
...prisoners had been routinely released, hundreds of Red Guards pushed past acquiescent Red Army and police guards. They crowded into the British diplomatic compound, shouting Mao-think slogans in English and French and throwing Molotov cocktails. Inside were 23 British diplomats, women and children. The mob set the chancellery afire, forcing the British to come out; nine of them, including Hopson, were beaten and kicked before being turned loose...
Beautiful Cat. Most slum dwellers also regard the mayor as their advocate in time of trouble. Rushing to Harlem's barrio, the Spanish-speaking quarter, after last month's violent outbreak, Lindsay was immediately surrounded by a loud mob of Puerto Ricans-each of whom wanted to be the first to tell him exactly what had gone wrong...
...mob was organized by President Joseph Mobutu's Mouvement Populaire Revolutionnaire, the only legal political party in the Congo. Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, it began to work up quite a head of steam for its "spontaneous anti-imperialist demonstration." Primary object was to protest the seven-week-old rebellion of the Congo's white mercenaries, who were fired by Mobutu and subsequently captured the border city of Bukavu by force. Loudspeaker trucks promised immediate satisfaction to all loyal Congolese right there in Kinshasa. Before the shouting was over, announced the sound trucks, the Belgian, French...
...last Englishman to meet with such boundless dual success--popular and critical--was Charles Dickens. A New York mob once trampled eight of its own rushing to get the last installment of The Old Curiosity Shop off the boat from England. The critics took years, however, to catch up with the mobs in enthusiasm and to discover what lay beneath Dickens' charismatic storytelling. The remarkable thing about Sgt. Pepper is that it received both popular and critical acclaim instantly. So great today is the pressure to appreciate that critics rushed to hail the album as "entertainment verging...