Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judge Samuel T. Tisdale '35 will hear final arguments from the defense and prosecution this afternoon in the Avatar trial. He will render his decision early next week in the cases of 32 Avatar salesmen, charged with selling obscene literature...
...make an educated guess that the judge will dismiss those cases which do not involve the sale of obscenity to minors," Avatar's lawyer, Harvey A. Silverglate said yesterday after a brief session in Middlesex Superior Court. Throughout the ten-day trial, the judge has expressed primary concern with the circumstances surrounding sales to minors and testimonies about the effect of obscenity on minors...
...final day of defense testimony, City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci yesterday denied that he had ever initiated any action against Avatar other than declaring in the October 2 City Council meeting that such "filth" should not be sold at the Out of Town News Agency, which rents its kiosk in the Square from the City...
Vellucci denied that Avatar and the hippies had been part of his campaign for re-election last fall...
Concerning the City's alleged "war on hippies," DeGuglielmo said, "The Avatar periodical is what we objected to, not the kids. We have no objection to them so long as they conform to the norms of the community. In this case, you had a group of children--I call them children--who were handing the public something disgusting and seeming to enjoy it...the minority inflicting obscenity on the majority...