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...Rock Pile. The full extent of their fury makes Watts look like a street squabble. The mobs were so huge that they sometimes completely jammed the broadest streets. They tore down telegraph poles and burly Irish women wielding crowbars tore up the tracks of the street railways. At one point, 50 soldiers formed a double line with fixed bayonets and tried to halt a mob marching on Third Avenue. They fired a volley into the crowd before they were overrun and took to their heels. One soldier tried to escape by scrambling up a rock pile near 42nd Street...
...came by the house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child can sure enough...
...brought waves of gospel talent into the blues field, and at the same time offered blues performers a chance to employ the climactic cadences and mythic ritual of black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...
...duration of the campaign, and ordered the expulsion of troublemaking foreigners; 154 have so far been deported. Climaxing the drive, police even invaded the historic Odeon theater, which had served as a revolutionary sanctuary since May 15. Dislodging the occupying students, who put up no fight, the police then tore down the red and black flags that flew over the old building, replacing them with three Tricolors...
...Minutes. ABC thus was first on the screen-at 12:19-with wobbly video tape from the murder scene. CBS's Roger Mudd, in the ballroom during the shooting, was alerted by a man who tore wildly out of the kitchen corridor, put his finger up to his head like a pistol and yelled, "Bang, bang, bang!" "That turned my stomach," recalls Mudd. He and his crew then tore their camera off the tripod and plunged into the corridor. It was a standard film camera, and so was NBC's. By the time CBS and NBC got their...