Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present system limits freshmen to 30 one o'clocks during the first semester--27 of which may be taken before Christmas--and 11:15's only when they are going to the Radcliffe library. Curfew all other nights...
...France. Jostling into the Place de la Concorde, the Etoile, the Place de 1'Opéra, the Champs Elysées, and half a dozen other Paris landmarks, tens of thousands of Algerians came swarming from slums and shantytowns to protest a new 8:30 p.m. curfew that applies only to Moslems...
...Paris riots was a vicious spiral of provocation and retaliation. In late August, F.L.N. terrorists in France launched a wave of attacks on pro-French Moslems and French police that in seven weeks killed eleven cops and 98 Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew...
...losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered his men one night after a humiliating defeat. "There's no curfew tonight...
...women were herded before stern military judges and sentenced to terms of up to a year in jail; when the police ran out of handcuffs, they lashed the prisoners together with ropes. To keep people at home nights, the authorities arrested 10,000 for violating the nightly curfew-including those who had to leave after dark for medical care. "Under martial law," snapped an officer, "you shouldn't get sick...