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...writing in hopes that the Crimson can give a little public ventilation to some fairly outrageous things which are going on in Cambridge concerning the Avatar. The Avatar has been a focal point for opposition to Mayor Hayes' anti-hippie campaign, the war in Vietnam, and other problems of interest to at least part of the Cambridge and Boston Community. The newsstands in the square no longer sell the Avatar. (City Hall has absolute discretion, according to the City Manager, as to whether or not they can retain their licenses.) The Paperback Booksmith in Boston is currently appealing from...
...naively optomistic effort to create some kind of dialogue with the people at City Hall, several of the Avatar staff and two Harvard law students from the Civil-Rights-Civil-Liberties Club met with City Manager DeGuglielmo. The whole interview was a bizarre experience...
...everyone's amazement we discovered that the Avatar was not a newspaper but a "commodity" (sort of like a cantelope perhaps?). Since it was a commodity, the City Manager has the authority to issue a permit to distribute or not to issue such a permit depending on his general frame of mind or any whim that may strike him. Not only need there be no hearing or other due process of law, but he need not even express or indeed have any reason for his action, according to the City Manager. Mr. DeGuglielmo was conspicuously unimpressed by the suggestion that...
...names of newspapers were not mentioned yesterday, but a copy of the Avatar was passed around the council chambers. Sullivan called it "The dirtiest stuff that was ever published...
Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci said Avatar was "so filthy" he wouldn't want anyone to read...