Word: curfew
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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...
Frank insisted the curfew was a necessity because residents around the Common complained about the noise. He said that since the hippies had moved in there, merchants on Charles Street were complaining that the street had become uninhabitable. "These older people have a right to live, too," he concluded...
...couple of police cars came into view. One rode up on the Common grass and the driver bellowed through a loudspeaker, "The curfew is in effect. All persons will leave the Boston Common immediately, or be subject to arrest...
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...