Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Street corner of the Boston Common, there were maybe 150 young people Sunday night-Monday morning at 12:30 a.m.--all of them breaking the law. The curfew on the Boston Common, set a month ago and liberalized a week ago, is midnight. On Saturday, 65 hippies had been arrested for defying the curfew, and Sunday looked like more of the same...
Several speakers at the two-hour rally urged continued resistance to the midnight curfew which has been imposed on the Common by Mayor White. Over 80 people have been arrested in the last two nights for curfew violations...
...Once the curfew was established, of course, it had to apply to all people--not just "undesirable" ones. "We can't discriminate," Wiggins admitted...
Wiggins said he does not expect the curfew to be necessary during the school year...
Police chief Robert Tonis said that the Harvard policeman is on duty from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. and the Cambridge policeman is on duty from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., but the curfew remains in effect until 8 a.m., although there is not always a policeman there to enforce...