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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...
Defense attorney Harvey A. Silverglate asked DeGuglielmo how he had justified his decision to order revocation of licenses. DeGuglielmo replied that the "vast majority" of Cambridge's 99,000 residents found Avatar offensive...
Silverglate then asked him if he had discussed Avatar with any professors at Harvard. "Yes, one, who found it offensive," DeGuglielmo said. He declined to give the professor's name to anyone but court officials...
...told the chief of police that if we revoked their peddling licenses, it was my hope that it would be the first step in getting Avatar to leave Cambridge," DeGuglielmo said...
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...