Word: curfews
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...impossible production: book by white Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, lyrics by white Journalist Patricia Williams, score by black Jazz Composer Todd Matshikiza, direction by white Actor-Director Leon Gluckman, a veteran of London's Old Vic. When rehearsals began, they had to be conducted against odds: the curfew, threatening Johannesburg hooligan gangs, the rules of apartheid...
Last year, following an extensive study of the attitudes of students and Masters on Friday night parietals, the Council recommended an 11 o'clock curfew. The proposal was rejected...
...came the two young Negroes who were the targets of a bawling mob only a few days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops and quiet men from the FBI. Down came the Confederate flag atop the Kappa Alpha house, and coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets." With a rueful smile, one white girl summed up: "Some...
...Duvalier's lights, there was no further point in arguing He readied his U.S. equipped and Marine-trained gendarmery, called in his sports-shirted bullyboys and cracked down on the church. At week's end Duvalier suspended a shoot-on-sight curfew ordered earlier, but showed no sign of flinching in his drive for total control...
...council poll of the student body found that 88 per cent of the school would favor an extension of curfew on Friday night from 3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. While six per cent abstained, only six per cent favored no change...