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Died. Benjamin Davis, 60, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, racial rabble-rouser among his fellow Negroes, and convicted seditionist (four years, 1951-55, in the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind.); after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Since mid-June, Negro and white demonstrators under the guidance of Martin Luther King Jr. had staged daily wade-ins at the predominantly white beach, paraded nightly through historic Slave Market park. One night two weeks ago, some 400 whites were whipped to a frenzy by a California rabble-rouser named Connie Lynch, who cried: "I favor violence to preserve the white race any time, any place, anywhere. Now I grant you, some niggers are gonna get killed in the process, but when war's on, that's what happens." The mob surged forth, threw itself...
...reminisces. "We had to push so often over the mudholes that I will never forget it." A low-key speaker who never talked down to his audiences, Nyerere interlarded his membership pitches with dry humor and nonviolent philosophy. Yet the British considered him a dangerous rabble-rouser, as they did anyone pushing for ii/ntru. Nyerere also courted danger with his own people. "I will never be a member of any government that discriminates against non-Africans," he said-and meant...
...Thank you for being candid enough to call Sukarno what he is-"rabble-rouser"-and for identifying his true reasons for opposition to the formation of Malaysia...
Trumpets pealing and trombones blaring, New York City's Department of Sanitation band oompahed into an ear-shattering rendition of the University of Minnesota's fight song-The Minnesota Rouser. On the speakers' platform, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Lothrop Freeman, 43, a Gopher alumnus (B.A. and LL.D.) and former Governor of Minnesota, perked an ear to the air, broke off his conversation with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, and hustled over to the band. "Thanks, boys," cried Freeman. "I haven't heard that in quite a while." Bandleader John Celebre, still brandishing...