Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge police, wearing black helmets and carrying their nightsticks in both hands across their chests, kept in formation and did not charge the crowd. But some members of the Boston Tactical Squad, wearing baby-blue helmets, appeared to go out of control at the rear of the line and randomly clubbed retreating demonstrators...
Along State St. after turning off Osborn St., demonstrators tripped one police officer who got ahead of his formation. This lead to a brief scuffle in which some NAC members threw rocks at police as they charged the crowd, injuring one girl with cuts on the head...
...venerable tactic. When the crowd is making for the Long Island Expressway, give the side roads a try. If everybody else in your class seems bent on applying to Yale, apply to Princeton. In political terms, the strategy called for Marchi to belittle his opponents' wild promises by citing the fiscal realities-he, too, would like to preserve the 20-cent subway fare, but he wanted New Yorkers to know that might not be possible. He, too, desired open enrollment at City University, but he alone of the candidates would acknowledge the possibility that money might not be forthcoming...
Police quickly cleared a path and the group entered their limousine but they were again surrounded by the crowd. Police began to explode tear gas: and a riot nearly ensued. The group managed to escape without injury...
...campaign itself has been an education for Hayes. He really isn't one of the Brattle Street crowd, and some of the audiences he faces are either apathetic or openly dubious. This is especially tricky when he speaks to groups that "belong" to various politicians. He handles himself well though, patiently explaining Cambridge's school system to people who don't know much and often don't particularly care, and fielding specific questions like...