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There was some ugliness at the first affair. Some motorcycle clubbers hopped on their machines and began doing wheelies up Beacon St. The hordes followed. They loved it. Everyone chugged up the Hill to the State House, and about 100 people stood on the steps yelling, "We want...
...nearly rocking it over. An airport limousine got the same treatment and so did one of the motorized carriages that runs around the Common. Then, finally, the cops showed up. They conspicuously stayed away from the grass where people were still clustered around smoking. All they did was clear Beacon St. and the little road inside the Common fence. Last Sunday there was none of this kind of trouble, although one group of about 100 marched on the Western Ave. Jail near Central Sq., where the 18 who had been busted earlier that day were reportedly residing...
...crowd blocked traffic, the cyclists whipped up Beacon Hill one by one, peeling out on their back wheels. Part of the crowd stood on the steps of the State House yelling, "Legalize...
...smoking wasn't the only activity the crowd of over 1000 indulged in. Several members of a motorcycle club decided to put on a trick-riding show. First they zoomed around the Common, then they took off for adjoining Beacon St. with hundreds of young admirers trailing behind...
...through the night the red beacon on top of the great rock flashes out its insistent and seemingly perpetual message: dash dash dot, dash dot dot dot. In the nearby Spanish villages of La Linea and San Roque and across the Campo plains to the mountains beyond, the people know that the Morse code signal stands for the letters G and B: Great Britain. The light is a constant reminder to the Spaniards that Gibraltar is British, as it has been ever since Britain seized it from Spain 263 years...