Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action on City Councillor Edward A. Sullivan's bill calling for consultation between Cambridge and University officials on damage caused in the Yale and blackout riots probably will not be forthcoming until next week, a spokesman at City Manager John B. Atkinson's office said yesterday...
...Cambridge City Council adopted unanimously yesterday an order, presented by Councillor Edward A. Sullivan, asking for University payment of damages done during Sunday's blackout and Friday's pre-Yale game riot...
Carmichael was late, and most people were sitting when he came in. Sunday's blackout had taught the tables a cheer, and they were shouting "This is Table Number Six! Where is Number Seven?" when Mr. Carmichael appeared in the doorway and smiled. Housemaster Elliott Perkins walked over and shook his hand. Dr. Perkins was wearing a tuxedo left over from high table; Mr. Carmichael was not. The two men blinked at each other. Mr. Carmichael stood up on a chair and toasted the house with a paper cup of beer, then he elbowed his way through House Committee...
Alvin R. Randall, chief of the University Police, will confer with the Administrative Board soon to decide the fate of the students who were deprived of their Bursar's cards during the blackout riot Sunday night...
...blackout which precipitated the student riot was caused by an engineer throwing the wrong switch in a power station at Pratt's Junction, about 50 miles northwest of Boston...