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...trouble began when 1,500 building-trade workers, striking against a 2% cut in their vacation pay, gathered for a demonstration and scuffled with local police. On the second day the Provos made their appearance, and a mob of thousands swept toward the center of town, tearing up the pavement, uprooting parking meters, smashing windows, burning cars, looting stores and completely overwhelming Amsterdam's 1,900-man police force, which always seemed to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Though the workers returned to their jobs the next morning, the Provos kept up the riot...
Toscano swung, and landed a hard right to Theresa's chin. Nonphased, the waitress picked up the squirming Toscano and tossed him out into the cold pavement of Holyoke Street...
...starting a riot." Grump even invents some excesses of its own: a game called "skull diving," for example, in which a man wearing a football helmet topped by a large spring bounces on his head out of the window onto the street. The instant the skull strikes the pavement is known as the "Moment of Migraine...
Britain's J. B. Priestley writes rather more than the average man talks. In the past 44 years he has published 37 plays, 29 volumes of nonfiction and 22 novels. His worst novels read as easy as a rug unrolls, and his best novels (Angel Pavement, The Good Companions) sound like Dickens updated and not too much marked down. Now 71, Priestley gives no evidence of deceleration-in recent months he has published two new novels in the U.S. Lost Empires is a warm, rowdy, old-fashioned tale about the vaudeville circuits in Britain half a century...
...plastique (a putty-like, easily shaped explosive), blew up. The fire ball knocked out nearly every window within a radius of 100 yds., demolished five of the buses, blew several stories of the facade off the Metropole, dug a 12-by 13-ft. crater in the pavement...