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When school did reopen, all was peaceful, if not normal. Plain-clothesmen and community leaders walked the halls to quell fights, and the precautions prevented serious confrontations for the rest of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fear, Hope After Killing | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Shoppers in Harvard Square looked on as Bok stood among the shouting students. A Harvard police car headed onto Mass Ave against oncoming traffic. As the car U-turned and stopped, four plain-clothesmen helped Bok move through the crowd. Despite students' protests, Bok, aided by the policemen, entered...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: More Than 1000 Rally Against Apartheid | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...last performances an account in Bruce's own words of his 19 busts. In Chicago a foolish bigoted judge puts on a show for the electorate. It's Ash Wednesday and the jurors he addresses all sport ashened foreheads. "It was like the goddammed Spanish Inquisition." The plain clothesmen who are sent out to gather evidence against him misinterpret Yiddish phrases. Gestures of benediction are mistaken for gestures of masturbation. Meanwhile his earnings have gone down from $350,000 to $6,000 and he shuttles in and out of hospitals, claiming to his listener (and implicitly through Speiser...

Author: By Willy Forbath, | Title: The Re-Making of Lenny Bruce | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...early September, two plain-clothesmen entered the office of the Foundation and without identifying themselves told the receptionist that they wanted to see Hakim. Hakim, who had been in a meeting in another room, came out. When he did, the plainclothesmen drew their guns. It is not clear whether or not they also identified themselves at this point. In any event. Hakim fled from their guns, and the receptionist raced into the room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Condemned King Held in the Tower | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

...Harvard student on his way to a state penitentiary for the offense of appearing on campus last Spring left the trial with more than a sour taste in their mouths. The horrifying experience of being beaten, kicked and truncheoned out of the courtroom building by a cadre of plain-clothesmen and uniformed police exceeded any verbal demonstration of how far the City of Cambridge or the Harvard Administration is prepared to go in the defense of archaic, ill-defined laws...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Contempt Cheyney's Trial | 11/4/1970 | See Source »

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