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...Avatar is one of several irreverent, fuzzily written hippie newspapers that have sprung up in the U.S. It contains no more erotica than the rest; even its chief contributor, Mel Lyman, who claims to be God, is nothing out of the ordinary. Avatar differs only in that it is published in the Boston area, where such publications are traditionally frowned on. Soon after it first appeared last spring, city fathers grew restive. Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone by calling it the "filthiest junk I have ever laid eyes on." News dealers heard a warning in this...
That was no obstacle to Avatar. It promptly rounded up scores of sympathetic youngsters to hawk the paper on street corners. One by one, police picked them up. But as arrests mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest...
...clerk in the store said that Officer Yetman "commanded me in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to let him use the phone." But apparently sympathetic to the Avatar salesman, he refused. The policeman then went down the street to find a public telephone...
Kelly's arrest marks number fifty-seven in a long string of Avatar-connected arrests in the past few months. Seven of these have been Harvard students...
...only other Avatar-Cambridge police incident since the "truce" has been the February 14 arrest of John Shirley, also charged with "selling obscene material to minors...