Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many of the spectators crossed the Larz Anderson Bridge into Cambridge, intent on taking MBTA subways and buses home. But the buses and subways could not handle the sudden influx at once, and as the largely teen-aged crowd backed up in Harvard Square, it turned into a surly mob. Beatings, purse-snatchings, and acts of vandalism broke out all over the Square, and before a hastily assembled force of policemen from Cambridge, Harvard, the MDC and the MBTA could restore order, seven persons had been hurt badly enough to require hospitalization...
...their fire in the wrong direction. The game involves Boston residents on a field in Boston, but rather than appealing directly to Boston authorities to work out a solution, DeGuglielmo bypassed them and demanded that Harvard throw the game out of the Stadium. Boston officials disclaimed responsibility for the mob their game had created, and treated the riot as though it had nothing to do with the students from the two Boston schools...
...Sydney rally last week, spectators hooted and booed Holt for his pro-Viet Nam stand; as he left the rally, a jeering mob of 500 swarmed around him, pummeling, kicking and finally spitting on him. When police finally got Holt to his car, a few diehards threw themselves across the road. The follow ing night at a Melbourne rally, demonstrators were at it again, chanting "Judas!" and "Traitor!" "If the Labor Party cannot control these demonstrations," shouted an exasperated Holt, "what chance have they in controlling our destiny?" Most of Australia's 6,000,000 voters got the point...
McCabe said he and other officials at the game were unaware of the riot until that night. The Stadium is within Boston city limits, but the mob collected in Cambridge around the MBTA entrance in Harvard Square...
DeGuglielmo called the incident an act "of pure animal savagery" and cited the necessity to prevent "displays of mob violence" in requesting the University to "outlaw any permission of future football games between the rival Boston High School institutions in Harvard Stadium...