Word: halloween
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...wasn’t just typical seasonal ambiance that left a tinge of terror in the air on Halloween 1982. Fears of razor-filled apples and needle-studded candy bars left parents and city officials concerned that children would be in for more tricks than treats as they went door-to-door that night...
Though there were no reported incidents of candy contamination in Cambridge on Halloween that year, a Crimson poll of Harvard professors residing in Cambridge found that few neighborhood children participated in the night’s events...
...response to fears of Halloween candy tampering, nine Massachusetts towns threatened a blanket ban on trick or treating...
Then-mayor Alfred E. Vellucci strongly supported regulating Halloween festivities, despite objections that such rules were potentially alarmist and would be difficult to enforce...
...replace traditional trick or treating pursuits, stressed that the need for protective regulations was not based solely on the recent Tylenol attacks. He argued that the outbreak of product tampering would plant similar ideas “in a sick person’s mind” during Halloween, and noted that trick-filled treats had been a problem in years past, citing an incident of someone who “put stuff in candy bars” in North Cambridge 30 years earlier...