Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday night, Harvard reinstated a nighttime curfew on the Forbes Plaza in front of Holyoke Center--an area which has been a prime hang-out for hippies, motorcyclists, teeny-boppers and other assorted Harvard Square types this summer...
...University made the plaza off-limits to all after 8 p.m. after receiving scores of complaints about the conduct of those occupying the plaza after nightfall, Robert Tonis, chief of the University Police, said yesterday. The plaza is Harvard-owned, and the University policemen have been enforcing the curfew without incident...
...local campuses have become increasingly security-conscious. Dormitories have instituted checkout procedures, and Eastern Michigan has imposed a curfew. The University of Michigan has increased its cross-campus bus service and installed lights on major streets and walkways. Campus police have stepped up night patrols...
Authorities of Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital, initially backed by the state, took the position early in the dispute that they could not legally bargain with a union of employees paid out of public funds. Gradually the anti-union tradition crumbled under strong pressure. A 9 p.m. curfew enforced by National Guardsmen cut the spring tourist trade. A Negro boycott of white businesses also did economic damage to the city. National publicity was mostly unfavorable and the strikers drew support from national labor and civil rights groups...
When a pall of tear gas failed to budge the rioters, the army flew in troops and additional ammunition, while jets fired off warning bursts of machine-gun fire overhead. Finally, the army ordered soldiers to shoot anyone appearing on the streets without permission during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. But neither curfew nor martial law nor dire warnings could halt the general strike next day. In Córdoba, riots broke out anew, and police opened fire on a crowd of 2,000 marchers. In the rest of the country, the strike brought all commerce, industry and transportation...