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Some Tahitians, however, are ready to mutiny against Bounty. Compounded of residual anti-Americanism in the French-held islands and simple jealousy on the part of those not in on the gold flow, the anti-Hollywood sentiment came leaping from the pavement one morning in neatly painted signs: M-G-M GO HOME. It was the work of a resident artist who had been turned down for a job with the M-G-M crew. When a good part of the M-G-M company recently left Tahiti for a temporary breather in Los Angeles, La Tribune Tahitienne exulted...
...Gaulle to the gallows" and "the paratroopers to Paris," a crowd of 5,000 students and settlers wrecked buses, smashed windows, and fought a pitched battle with police. To clear the streets of demonstrators, police charged again and again, swinging rifle butts and truncheons. The rioters threw stones, pavement blocks and tin cans until dispersed by tear gas. Regrouping a few blocks on, the mob swept down on the U.S. Information Service office and wrecked it for the second time in two years. By the time darkness halted the fighting, 100 were wounded, including 70 cops...
Russian scientists are especially good at theory, but none of the chapters in the book rise above the level of applied science. About the only novel idea is highways with cables carrying high-frequency current under their pavement. The electric field surrounding the cable, says Engineer U. A. Dolmatovsky, will hold automobiles out of contact with the ground and at the same time propel them forward at 150 m.p.h. There will be no accidents no matter how heavy the traffic, because automatically guided cars are free of human error. Such high-speed cars will operate only on main highways. Inside...
...Left Socialists and several thousand workers just let out at the government-owned Renault auto factory. As the meeting broke up, gangs of right-wingers attacked the students. Helmeted police charged in, swinging batons and lead-weighted capes. When the street was finally cleared, dozens lay on the bloody pavement. More than 500 rioters were arrested and nearly 1,000 injured...
...town where politicians bow like willow trees before racial and religious breezes, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy is an up-from-the-pavement cop (he likes the word) with a concrete sense of duty. A routine proposal that every Jewish police officer on the force ought to be excused from duty on the Jewish High Holy Days last week seemed to Commissioner Kennedy scarcely worth considering. He had already ordered every one of the 24,000 cops in the city, except those on vacation, to stand emergency duty during all the hubbub of international visitors...