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...riot" of course played into the hands of the police. who got to beat people, make lots of arrests, and show a massive presence in the Square area. One University Policeman said that the police had their tactics and manpower more together this time than ever before. The strict curfew, and attack that cut off the small group near the Common from ever getting to the Square were more military than anything Cambridge has seen yet. They were part of the new "get tough" attitude demanded by Cambridge merchants, and potentially vote-getting for people like Walter J. Sullivan...
Sunday Festival activities were canceled, and the mayor and some local black representatives met, but as the curfew was enforced ??? evening, more skirmishes erupted; ???indows were broken, a few rocks were thrown at autos. Several more buildings suffered fire damage, and a few shots were fired at the police...
...Tuesday, July 14, the Guard was pulled out and the curfew cut back. Eight white city officials (there is one black city councilman in the local government and a few black police) received a middle-class community delegation in the tidy new brick courtroom in the police station...
...city lifted the curfew Monday night, but the West End ghetto remained tense as young blacks clustered on corners and heavily-armed police patrolled the streets...
...proved his contention that the tactics he learned in small boats would serve him well in the America's Cup. A tall, totally bald man, he resembles the thin man's Mr. Clean only in looks. Unlike some skippers, he does not impose a curfew on his young crew, nor does he lead them in calisthenics. Even so, he had his charges outhustling the more experienced Valiant hands on nearly every tack. "Though we aren't No. 2 any more," says Picker, "we still have to try harder to uphold the tradition of Intrepid...