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...district commissioner proposed that the Bamangwato elect another chief. The tribal elders, wearing goatskins, zoot suits and flashy ties, told him to be quiet. They shook their fists and spat. Bamangwato virgins stormed the dais where Batho sat, and screamed: "We want our chief Seretse . . . May you die where you stand." Batho appealed for order and was shouted down: "Seretse should lead us . . . We cannot nominate anyone else to take his place. You have tried to rule us with a rod of iron. You treat us like ants. We won't have...
...plop as the comedy relief, which is neither comic nor relieving. It rather adds to the strain. In short, there is little more universally entertaining that a western, especially in technicolor, even when written to a formula. But if action becomes drudgery, if lines are sighed instead of spat, and if actors look like hod-carriers hurrying to get a union-day's work done, the series of scenes moves like a man blind with amnesia. LAURENCE D. SAVADOVE
...large map of the Square posted near the witness stand. In a testimony constantly broken into by the defending lawyers who claimed it wasn't germane in the cases of their clients, he related how the crowd "was making a great deal of noise," how he "was spat upon," and "shot with water pistols," He claimed the students were ""completely out of order" from 7 p.m. on. At its largest, he testified, the crowd was about...
...burly, red-faced cop, ran to the Packard. He leaned inside and slowly, very slowly, helped out the most powerful man in Africa: Prime Minister Daniel François Malan. Half supported by his bodyguard, 78-year-old Daniel Malan mounted the steps and disappeared inside. A watching Negro spat. That afternoon, Malan (pronounced m' lawn) squatted on the front bench of the House of Assembly and heard the opposition call him a "Hitlerite," a charge which he has certainly invited but not yet fully earned. His government had just introduced a bill designed to destroy the independence...
...over their tanks, smashing ports and prying open the turrets. "I'm going to fire," a young tank captain shouted to his commanding officer. "I can no longer be responsible for the safety of my men." The commander at last relented. "Allez-y," he cried. The automatic rifles spat. The mob turned and ran, leaving six dead behind them...