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...licks. In the hallowed "proletarian" section of Paris between the Bastille and the Place de la Republique, 2,000 Communists roamed the streets shouting, "Fascism shall not pass!" A woman stepped out from behind one of the Red commandos to jeer at the police: "Sa-lauds!" With a roar, a squadron of 30 flics charged. The plainclothesman leading them hit the jeering woman squarely in the mouth. The rest of the mob faded away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: I Am Ready | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...stalked off up the mountainside to watch the races. At the first turn Vag seated himself upon a tree stump and watched a white Jaguar roar up the slope. The car was driven by a girl...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: On Wheels | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

...Muffled Roar. Two days of dogged Seabury questioning wore off Jimmy's gloss. Little by little his theatrics turned hollow, his cockiness wilted. Samuel Seabury sent his report to New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who called Democrat Walker on the carpet for personal questioning. But before Roosevelt had a chance to remove Walker from office, the mayor resigned and fled to Europe. Three years later he returned, played desperately at being a man about town, became a familiar and still-jaunty figure in nightclubs, theaters and bars before his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Reformer | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Aloof, and thin-lipped, Judge Samuel Seabury moved out of the news and was scarcely heard from again. Last week, at 85, the man who had helped muffle the roar of the '20s died in a Long Island nursing home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Reformer | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Soon his white convertible neared the sweating demonstrators, whose faces twisted with hatred as they cried, "Nixon is a viper!" Nixon turned to an aide, said: "I think we ought to take it on," got out of the car. He briskly shook some outstretched hands, shouted over the angry roar: "I came to talk with you! Have your leader come out and talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Stones--and a Warning | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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