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...Adams Curfew...
...Strange Quiet. After Cairo's violence had run its course, with an estimated 62 dead, the Wafdist (Nationalist) cabinet finally bestirred itself. Its leaders went to the palace, and winning Farouk's approval, clapped all Cairo under martial law. Curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. was imposed; the press was put under censorship...
Bahau's 8,000 rubber workers struck. They made no wage demands, asked only for protection. Management's answer was to declare a 15-to 24-hour daily curfew to control all movement in & out of the area. During the curfew planters' patrols would fire at any moving thing, arrest anyone at large in the 50,000 acres of idle plantations. With order thus restored, 2,200 rubber workers last week decided that they could safely go back to work. But six weeks without any rubber production had cost $500,000 in production and wages...
...percent of the sophomores, are three-meal-daily eating clubs only, the week-end transforms them into a combination of the Stork Club and a private hotel room. Some clubs, each of about 100 members, can put up as many as 40 girls a night, and the curfew isn't until 2 a.m. The famous House party week-end leads all the others in gaiety and abandon, but the football week-ends are not far behind. In the spring and early fall Lake Carnegie and the football field offer fine rendezvous...
...city's quietness surprised Cambridge police, who laid the cause to the 9:30 p.m. curfew for children under 16, and the vigilance of 50 Boy Scouts who patrolled fire alarm boxes...