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...stupid young man (Nehemiah Persoff) from the city, but he was rich. He offered Suzanne a new phonograph if she would let him watch her take a shower, and a diamond if she would spend a weekend with him in the city. "I guarantee I won't touch you," he assured her, gasping with excitement. Suzanne contemptuously accepted his diamond but declined payment, and Joseph stirred worms into his coffee. But Ma led the suitor on, in hopes he would lend her money. When he didn't, Joseph ran him off the place with a shotgun, and then...
...Shower of Glass. The spitting began as the Nixons walked along the troop-lined red carpet toward their limousines. The band made a futile attempt to quiet the crowd by playing the Venezuelan national anthem; Pat Nixon shamed a hooting, teen-aged girl into silence by reaching over the guards' bayonets to take her hand. As the Nixons got into separate cars for the ten-mile superhighway trip up the coastal range to the capital, demonstrators tried to blind the drivers by draping banners over the windshields. Only when the mob was left behind...
...crawl, then halted. Several hundred rioters came running. They ripped the U.S. and Venezuelan flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...
What came, instead of Communist Valcaárcel, was a shower of stones. One grazed Nixon's neck. "Go home, Nixon!" a youth screamed into the Vice President's ear. "I'll go home," Nixon answered, "but first why don't you come and talk with me? You are cowards! Come here and talk." But by then, stones had hit some of Nixon's aides. He withdrew. Valcarcel & Co. stampeded to the Plaza San Martin and shredded the flowers that formed the U.S. flag in the wreath. Catching up with Nixon again as he walked...
...fracas, conceived early in the day by a few disgruntled freshmen, began at 10 p.m., when a shower of firecrackers dropped from the windows of Grays, Weld, and Matthews. Crowds began to pour into the Yard, only to be stopped by proctors and University police...