Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That night the Council passed a 9 p. m. to 8 a. m. curfew for the Common-intended to cover only groups loitering there, not persons walking across. Shortly afterward the Council asked the Summerthing to cancel its remaining concerts and requested that Harvard take steps to prevent "disreputable persons" from congregating in the area of Forbes Plaza. The Council also ordered the Cambridge Police to enforce strictly the laws against panhandling...
...curfew was unenforceable; groups of freaks gathered on the Common every night for weeks there after, as if daring the police to try to push them off it. Summerthing ignored the Council's request, as did Harvard. And the merchants, not satisfied, came together again the following Wednesday to try to find out a way to get back to the profitable Cambridge they had known. Stores like Krackerjacks, J. August, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bobbi Baker Ltd. had been hit hard. Krackerjacks had lost $2400 in windows, and as its manager said, "You have to sell a lot of bluejeans...
Again, some Cambridge radicals smelled a trap, and began circulating the word that the planned action might not be the smartest in the world. Nevertheless, by curfew time about 150 people had gathered on the Common and trash bonfires were burning brightly...
...police relentlessly pursued the crowd up toward Radcliffe, blocking off all entrances to the Square, redirecting traffic, and announcing an 11 p. m. curfew. A few windows were broken up Mass. Ave. and one car was set afire, but the disturbance was fairly well dampened before it ever caught...
...return, his former conversant and would-be educator shouted "Hey man, its not this" and he raised a "V." "It's this." Quickly, he uplifted a fist into the biting, post-curfew night air. The student looked for a second, returned the upheld fist gesture, inhaled deeply, and sprinted across Mass. Ave. disappearing into...