Word: newsppaer
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Avatar, Boston's iconoclastic underground newsppaer, is back in court. A month ago the eleventh issue of Avatar was declared obscene in Boston Municipal Court. Because Cambridge and Boston newsstands refused to sell Avatar, even before the obscenity decision, Avatar had to sell its twelfth and thirteenth issues--deliberate parodies of "obscenity"--primarily through street vendors. Boston and Cambridge authorities responded to the hippy news-boys with harrassment, arrests and, one day last week, a flying raid on Avatar's Boston office...
...instituting proceedings for criminal prosecution of the owners, writers and distributors of the so-called 'hippie' newspapers now being sold through the City." Of course, the order was not necessary. Working through the permit ordinance--and outside state and Constitutional law--DeGuglielmo had already begun his attack on a newsppaer whose main fault, in the eyes of City Hall, is that it serves as the inflammatory voice of the hippie-radical movement...
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