Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guards in a La Paz suburb to learn whether they were to be evacuated in Panagra planes standing by on Peruvian airfields. Siles called for another demonstration. Flanked by La Paz's archbishop, the armed forces chief and his Cabinet, he stood on a palace balcony before a throng of 25,000 which included a brass band. Again he called for calm, and again he was disobeyed. Led by Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells, then pistols. A dentist was killed by a stray bullet. Then calm crept...
Puckered up for an irresolute buss were Red Hot Mama Sophie Tucker, 75, and effervescent Boulevardier Maurice Chevalier, 70, who wowed the throng at the Golden Globe Awards dinner of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with a nimble rock 'n' roll rendering of Sophie's old show-stopping Some of These Days...
...Soviet leader told a reception throng at East Berlin's City Hall that a World War II peace treaty must be concluded with Germany, together with the windup of the 13-year occupation of West Berlin...
...should've brought my camera," drawled a gangling Virginia youngster as he strolled into Theodore Ficklin Elementary School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses...
...addressing a group of New Mexico Democrats in Albuquerque, Johnson told a press conference that he was "not a candidate, would not be a candidate and would not permit anyone to make me a candidate" for President. Whereupon New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson introduced him to the throng as "A man I firmly believe will be the next President of the U.S." Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except...