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...Zurich, 12,000 rock 'n' roll fans rioted and began tearing apart the seats in the local stadium until police piled in with clubs. In Warsaw, 8,000 teen-agers crashed through police barriers and stormed the iron gates of the Palace of Culture. In the resulting barrage of bottles and bricks, police sprayed the mob with tear gas, called in steel-helmeted reinforcements with machine guns, dogs, and two armored cars mounted with water cannons...
...other peaks. Feeling confident, she strolled to a nearby ski shop to buy a parka and ski pants, more appropriate to the surroundings than the olive two-piece suit that she wore. It was her undoing. The store owner recognized her and phoned the news to the sensationalist Zurich tabloid Blick, which offers money for all such tips...
...during which he translated the New Testament into German. Meanwhile, the revolt against Rome spread; in town after town, priests and town councils removed statues from the churches and abandoned the Mass. New reformers, many of them far more radical than Luther, appeared on the scene-Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich, the ex-Dominican Martin Bucer in Strasbourg, Thomas Munzer in Zwickau. More important, princes, dukes and electors defied the condemnation of Luther by giving covert support to the new movement...
...historians it is known as the February Revolution.* Unlike the October Revolution that followed it and installed Lenin and Communism in power, the February Revolution was unplanned and unplotted. In a nation teeming with would-be revolutionaries, the uprising was a total-and embarrassing-surprise. Lenin himself was in Zurich, and only two months previously had mournfully predicted that his generation would not live long enough to see the Czar overthrown, so distant seemed the prospect. "Who led the revolution?" Socialist Leon Trotsky later asked. He answered himself ruefully: "Nobody. It happened of itself...
Repellent & Alluring. At 1 p.m. Zurich time, Modestini, Feidler and their 490-year-old companion boarded Swissair Flight 100. Ginevra occupied a $417 window seat. Beneath the suitcase tab was a dial, similar to those used on meat thermometers, indicating the temperature deep within the Styrofoam. "We checked her temperature every hour," says Feidler, who found it rising slowly but no faster than anticipated. "I would be less than truthful if I didn't say that I had apprehensions." A five-hour delay in landing was caused by an East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted...