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...words left his mouth, the police call box rang. The sergeant took the phone, and policemen nutraculousy began to appear from doorways all the way down Mt. Auburn Street. A squad of six collected and tramped off to quell a piot in a local all-night hamburg emporium...
...commuters of Dudley pulled down the only other Crimson victories, each squeaking by with 6 to 0 scores. A long pass from Leverett back Bob Zimmerman to Bill MacVicar put the Bunnies in scoring position, and a second heave to end Pete Duble was all it took to quell Timothy Dwight...
...this time, nobody on the rostrum could be heard. From the clerical congregation came an angry hubbub interspersed with cries of "Throw him out!" and around Norris gathered a menacing knot of young minister veterans. Eventually four policemen showed up and explained that they had been summoned to quell a riot. By that time the uproar had quieted and Louie Newton continued his report...
...multilingual committees agree on a solution, and make it stick, where Britain had failed? If enough Arabs or enough Jews wanted their own way badly enough, there was going to be plenty of work for a U.N. police force (which does not yet exist); U.N. cops might have to quell the same kind of disturbances on refugee ships and take the same glares British cops were taking last week...
...Communists that alternative? They have redivided the land and instituted basic economic changes and have maintained a correct aloofness toward their Soviet God-fathers. Yet the label of "agrarian liberalism," as applied by the authors, cannot quell fears of democrats who have watched police states entrench themselves in the vacuum left by moderates who are terrified by change. Theodore White and Miss Jacoby feel that American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department...