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...covered with the green, white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side aisle. They looked tough, all right...
...pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...
When a photographer tried to get LaGuardia to pose in a truckload of wheat, he refused, saying: "It'll hurt the wheat." "Won't it?" he asked, turning to Bell. "No," said Bell, "farmers often pack it that way." "How do you know?" LaGuardia demanded. Said Bell: "I'm from Kansas." "Well," LaGuardia decided. "I won't stand in it. It'll look silly." So he didn't stand...
...Crawford et ux last week sued ABC's Bride & Groom program for $17,000 damages. The charge: Bride & Groom at the last minute had reneged on a promised wedding-on-the-air, with all the trimmings-honeymoon in Las Vegas, flowers, photographs, sterling silver service and a truckload of kitchen equipment. They had to get married finally at their own expense...
This done, the Republicans checked out of the Kansan Hotel. Next morning cleaning women removed a near truckload of empty whiskey bottles from bedrooms; bellhops rested after a tough day & night of toting sparkling water and ice; and Topeka bootleggers happily totaled up the receipts...