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...officials stood idly by as 10,000 hooligans were marshaled into position by a Ministry of Information soundtruck, which led the chant: "Yankee Go Home." Then, under a barrage of rocks and bricks, the rioters broke through police lines and stormed the U.S. embassy. They overturned and burned cars, tore down the U.S. flag, replaced it with the Cambodian emblem. As embassy personnel huddled behind tear-gas-armed Marine guards on the third floor, the demonstrators ransacked ground-floor offices, destroying papers and smashing equipment. At the British embassy, the whole process was repeated, even to painting "Down with...
...Chippy on the Turf. Mersey-side's cultural crisis began in 1955, when the American movie Rock Around the Clock came to town. All the kids went to see it and, of course, they tore up the theater in their enthusiasm. But according to an article in the British sociology journal New Society, things were never the same again. Says 19-year-old Colin Fletcher, who was a member of two Merseyside gangs before he entered Liverpool University: "It was the first time the gangs had been exposed to an animal rhythm that matched their own behavior. The beat...
Fear of Flops. Zeffirelli had planned to match Verdi's canny humor by having all the scenery jerked away in the opera's final moment while the cast tore off their wigs and pointed mocking fingers at the audience. "This is a very disturbing opera, and you should be reminded at the end that it is disturbing," he argued. "Everything is a big joke! You've all been cheated!" But Met Manager Rudolf Bing didn't get it-he figured it would look like a grotesque error by the boys backstage. So he spared his audience...
...Harvard stands was worried, since Fred Pereira was about to take the mat for his last bout at Harvard. But it wasn't Pereira's day. While tying up with Bill Hannah in the first period, he reinjured the rib that he tore against Columbia. Pereira stayed on the mat, but couldn't move well as Hannah coasted to a 5-0 decision. Ben Brooks followed by tying Mike Wilbur...
...body of one of the dead, the remaining survivors fled in all directions. Brother Jean-Guy and Brother Raymond Bussière, 25, made it to the refectory. "Brother Raymond was bleeding terribly," recalled Brother Jean-Guy as he lay in a Leopoldville hospital last week. "I tore off some of my habit, drenched it in blood and smeared his face and back, then mine, to make us look dead. I was certain that we would not survive." Incredibly, the end never came. Into the refectory strode several of the Jeunesse. Bui seeing the gory "bodies," the marauders turned away...