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...bonus of 31 more seats "by right" among ex-prisoners. Together with the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialist faction, this gave them a solid 100-man obstructionist bloc in the Senate, and golden opportunities for delaying and debauching the democratic process, as they proved in the Palm Sunday rumpus over electoral reform (TIME, April 6), when furniture flew and members grappled. Last week, the time and opportunity ripe, Premier Alcide .de Gasperi decided to move against his Communist enemies in the Senate. Five years having passed since the last election, it was constitutionally mandatory to dissolve the lower Chamber and order...
...scrubwomen rumpus shocked the University out of its unenlightened attitude...
...action, the Young Communist League caused even more of a rumpus than on paper. It was the instigator of the series of anti-war demonstrations that produced yearly riots at the University. As long as the party line of the period preached peace over all, peace crusades were the chief activity of Communist groups. They held mass meetings, parades, soap-box harrangues, and released doves of peace from the steps of Widener...
After the trial, police officers and students talked and joked together in the lobby. One undergraduate was heard to say as he left the building, "this is the way the rumpus ends, not with a bang but a whimper," But all involved expressed satisfaction at the outcome. The University will not take any action against the participants
When the riot squad first arrived, it was faced with a relatively inactive crowd, which unfortunately included a few students who liked to pull trolley wires. By slugging a few undergraduates on the head, the police were sure of raising more of a rumpus than ever existed before their arrival. They did. Most disturbances are terminated by the apprehension of those who are causing the trouble, which in this case was a small number, not by ostentatious brutality. Mr. Verba's argument that force was the most suitable weapon with which to disperse the rally is refuted by the fact...