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...legitimate heirs of the French Revolution. Anti-Communists of all shades-not just the right-joined in spontaneous demonstrations in Paris. Marseille and Lyon. In Bordeaux they tore down the nameplate on Place Stalingrad, renamed it Place Budapest. Flags flew at half-staff. The National Assembly broke into tumult and fighting after Communists jeered a resolution extending sympathy to the Hungarian rebels. "History will judge those who do not associate themselves with this homage!" cried Foreign Minister Christian Pineau...
That night and next day the House of Commons was in tumult, with Labor angrily demanding answers and Eden confining himself to reading unresponsive extracts from earlier statements. Concluding from Eden's evasiveness that British troops were indeed going into action, Gaitskell took the floor...
Amid all the tumult Dr. Coggins painstakingly sidestepped a martyr's role. "I should have known better," she explained to a reporter. "But I wasn't sponsoring integration; I was just doing my job. Look, this is a small community." Then she added: "I guess saying that, I sound like I've been brainwashed. Well, maybe I have. I don't know...
Into the beer-and-Braves tumult of Milwaukee, Wis. one day last week roared Harry Truman, ready to start Round One of his battle for Adlai Stevenson. With one Truman-type swing, he hit his own party's cause just above the belt. He sat down at a TV panel show with Dr. Anthony T. Bouscaren, professor of political science at Marquette University...
...breeze, led his crew through Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Walter Piston's Sixth, and, in a specialty that every Munchian audience outside Russia has heard and heard again, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2. At the end, the crowd let loose an eight-minute tumult, only stopped temporarily when the orchestra went into a rare encore-Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. Said a leading Russian fiddler: "It's the greatest orchestra in the world...