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...liquor was lousy. His sideline was running the lucrative national lottery. But after ousting Strongman Pibulsonggram, Sarit went off the bottle and then to work, house-cleaning Thailand from top to bottom. In La Guardia fashion, he roams the streets, checking on police and garbage men, dropping in on sidewalk cafés for a chat, handing out fines for tossing fruit peelings on the street. He also likes to set himself up as a one-man prosecutor, judge and jury, has personally tried defendants accused of crimes ranging from Communist terrorism to arson. In many cases, his verdict...
That afternoon the politician in Lyndon took over again from the statesman. Setting out on a tour of local sights, Johnson spotted a crowd gathered on the sidewalk. He stopped his car, got out and made for the crowd at a lope, flashing a 100-watt smile. Ignoring the language barrier, he made an impromptu speech saying that Diem was the "Churchill of the decade," who would "fight Communism in the streets and alleys, and when his hands are torn he will fight it with his feet...
...with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
Never in anyone's memory had such strict security measures been clapped on a criminal trial at the Old Bailey in peacetime. Hordes of police cordoned off the sidewalk outside, allowed no one near the courtroom. When the trial began, Lord Chief Justice Lord Parker ordered the doors locked, the windows shuttered. In the dock was George Blake, 38, a British Foreign Service official, who had confessed that for 9½ years he had fed Moscow a steady flow of Britain's closest secrets...
...well-nigh gone. Down at Luluabourg, once the prosperous commercial center of Kasai province, only two shops in the European section remain open-a jeweler and a hardware dealer. Everything else is closed along the main street, where the local Africans doze in the shelter of over hanging sidewalk roofs, occasionally rising to walk out into the drizzle and urinate on the sidewalk...