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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...
...Return," screamed Sylvia at exactly seven minutes to one. And it shocked Murray; he had forgotten about religion and the theory of the eternal return. But of course as a fine specimen of summer school girl Sylvia had remembered the curfew...
Reacting to mounting civic fear, Mayor White slapped a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. antiloitering curfew on the Common. To protest the curfew, some 300 hippies held a candlelight parade through the Common, encouraging bystanders to join. Unfortunately, some of the joiners were teen-age thugs, and in a prolonged melee that flashed off and on for three days, 34 were arrested. Police said that only six of them were authentic hippies...
Tension was high in the area for hours after the incident, while people continued to mill around and policemen to shout orders and race motorcycles. One "straight" youth remarked "Either we'll get the Common back or there'll be a curfew in the whole city...