Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen people, including five Harvard students, were arrested in Harvard Square yesterday afternoon for selling Avatar. The arrests brought to at least 49 the number of people who have been seized by Boston or Cambridge police for peddling the nine-month-old newspaper...
Meanwhile, a half dozen more disconsolate Avatar staffers waited in the lobby of the police station for bond to be set and for the prisoners to decide whether they wanted to come...
...joke the first few times they arrested somebody," said Wayne M. Hansen, who is listed on the masthead as one of the Avatar's two editors. "But now it's really beginning to tell. If we don't get support, if people from Harvard and places like that don't come out and sell papers for us, we're going to go under...
...said that Avatar would sell papers in front of Holyoke Center again this afternoon, and that if there were more arrests, staff members would stage a candle-light protest demonstration later in the evening outside the Central Square police station...
...nine arrested over the weekend are scheduled to be arraigned in Third Eastern Middlesex District Court (East Cambridge) at 9 a.m. today. Wayne M. Hansen, a former Harvard student and one of Avatar's two editors, is already under indictment in Cambridge Courts as a result of an earlier arrest, also for selling Avatar...