Word: plainclothesmen
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Near the end of the show people started jumping up on the stage just to touch him, shake his hand, or be near him. Plainclothesmen and the police pushed fans back into the audience and Brown kept right on singing. Then between two numbers he came forward and started shaking hands. People wouldn't let go of him while more and more tried to jump up on the stage. It became clear that this was not just an ordinary James Brown performance. Normally he would not have let people charge the podium, but the show had turned into a test...
Numbing 30-degree temperatures and a brisk wind made it seem longer, however, and some vendors looked almost relieved by the time two uniformed patrolmen and two plainclothesmen arrived to take them away. They had sold about 300 papers...
Later, the police let the crowd huddle in a stairwell near the courtroom door, where plainclothesmen snapped photos of everyone in sight. Police had replaced the hallways' dreary lights with new, high-powered bulbs to accommodate the cameramen. One of the main protesters was a balding but erect Soviet general in his 60s who circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union...
...Arab side of the lines, and it was just as tough being a war correspondent. New York Times Reporter Tom Brady managed to slip past Damascus airport officials, who did not know that he had been blacklisted in Syria. But when he phoned his first story to Lebanon, three plainclothesmen showed up at his hotel and dragged him off to jail. In Amman, NBC Correspondent Robert Conley was picked up by Jordanian troops, who accused him of taking pictures -even though he had no camera. Stranded at airports around Europe, many correspondents never even got near the Arab countries. Those...
...Plainclothesmen may soon be armed with a new model that telescopes to fit into the pocket, extends to full, firm length at a flick. General Ordnance even offers a plastic billy that does double duty: the company's new incapacitating spray can be shot out of the handle...