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Other rioters in other days delighted in getting the President out of bed to quell their disturbances. Outbreaks usually began with the cry of "Heads Out"; when and why the original rallying call was replaced by "Rinehart", nobody seems to know...
Ready warned, however, that he will have patrolmen on hand to quell any disturbance, "should it get out of hand...
Some might suggest that this newspaper could quell such exploits by denying them publicity; but that cannot be our role. We have a duty to our readers to report the news. Moreover, despite our real sympathy for Lampy, we prefer not to pass judgement on the abductors of the Ibis while they remain obscurity. That they are clever and unscrupulous, that their conduct appears reprehensible, we know; but much we do not know. Is Thresky happy with them? Is their interest purely malicious do they have a genuine affection for him? These questions are not easily answered...
...Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...
...Their bark is louder than their bite," one Yard cop said. "I heard the fire-crackers all the way over on Francis Avenue, near Somerville." He added "the proctors are the ones who should get in trouble for not trying to quell the riot, and not students...