Word: curfew
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...tension and threat of violence hanging over the Arab world last week got much too personal for two of our reporters. Paris Correspondent William McHale, covering the unrest in North Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), was caught out after curfew one night near Algiers. Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after...
...This fact made it clear that the Master's real motive was to drive students to the dances and thereby make them more profitable rather than encouraging virtue. This deduction was supported by the subsequent appearance on Official Bulletin Boards of little white notices proclaiming the eight o'clock curfew for every Saturday night on which the House Committee sponsored a co-educational function...
...bill to extend Cambridge's present curfew regulations to include the age group from 16 to 21 years would get the vote of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, former mayor of Cambridge and Harvard's only representative on the City Council. "I think teenagers are getting out of hand, and that includes student!" DeGuglielmo said in explaining his position...
Ready added he was personally opposed to any extension of the curfew to include 21 year-olds...
Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan stated that Boston was not planning any such curfew...