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...suddenly the script was changed, and the security police mysteriously withdrew. In a mood both exuberant and ugly, the young crowd swept forward again, seized an auto and used it as a battering ram to smash down the iron gates that barred their way. They went tumbling into the halls and corridors, raced up the stairs and rampaged through the 500 government offices. Armfuls of official papers fluttered down from smashed windows. A fully armed company of paratroopers stood idly by, joking with the rioters, accepting beer and sandwiches from ecstatic girls. All at once, there was a martial stir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Hesitant Insurrection | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Bloodletting | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...command performance, and Broadway responded with its best. While no fewer than nine understudies carried on in Manhattan, stars from five smash musicals, including Sally Ann Howes (My Fair Lady), Thelma Ritter (New Girl in Town) and ten-year-old Eddie Hodges (The Music Man), entertained White House guests last week in a special musicale at a dinner for the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Weeper for the Losers | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...outpatients" of his audience, sneers at his sponsors, scowls at the world, sits at his piano, twitching, squirming, blinking, playing. Says he: "I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy." Only eight weeks old, The Oscar Levant Show is a smash hit, and the networks are angling for Oscar's talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Frenzied Road Back | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Strongman's Round | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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