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About 30 businesses in Cambridge and another 15 in the Boston area have said that they will close for all or part of the day. Cahaly's, Corcoran's, Paperback Booksmith, and True are among the stores that will close all day. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will have no rehearsal, and the Proposition will give a free performance...
...Shintron Company has placed boxes for the graffiti at the Business School Coop, Nini's, Felix's, Browser's Corner, and the Paperback Booksmith. Twenty-five blank stickers are available at these depots for $1,98, but contest candidates do not have to use them...
...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 a recent conviction under the obscenity statute for selling issue number 10. A street vendor in Cambridge was arrested last week for selling the next issue, and many more arrests are expected this week when the new issue hits the street. In short, selling...
...decision was made in a criminal proceeding against William McGuire, a 20 year old clerk at the Boston branch of the Paperback Booksmith. McGuire was fined two hundred dollars for selling the issue which was the tenth the Avatar has published. Marshall Smith, manager of the Booksmith chain, said that his lawyers would appeal the decision. In Massachusetts this means a new trial before the State Superior Court...
...decision, Adlow said, was based entirely on the contents of the "Diary of a Young Artist," a weekly column which appeared in the ill-fated Avatar issue. When Robert Poppio, attorney for the Booksmith, argued that the whole issue had to be considered, Adlow replied, "Suppose the printer made a mistake and put this column in the middle of the Old Testament. Wouldn't you still judge it as obscene?" Adlow admitted that he hadn't read the whole issue. "That would be cruel and abusive punishment," he said...