Word: pieper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul A. Vernaglia said that surgeons feel his son "will probably suffer no permanent damage" as the result of the injuries he suffered when he and Charles P. Pieper '69 were attacked and beaten by a gang of five men on Dunster Street in front of Kirkland House...
Cambridge police arrested two of the suspects Sunday afternoon after a three-mile chase that began in Harvard Square. Police driving through the Square recognized a black 1960 Chevrolet with swastikas painted on the windows that Pieper had said was used in the attack. After a high-speed chase up Concord Avenue, police caught the car and took the two men into custody after questioning them...
After leaving the cafeteria, Pieper and Vernaglia ran down Dunster Street toward Eliot House. They didn't see anyone chasing them, and thought they were safe until a car full of seven people--apparently the same ones they had seen earlier--roared up behind them and hit Pieper, knocking him into a snowbank...
...gang jumped out of the car and beat Pieper and Vernaglia, kicking Vernaglia in the head, until the commotion drew a group of Kirkland House students outside. The seven then field in their car while a group of students--several of them on the track team--ran after them. The car's license plates were covered with rags, and none of the students could get close enough to pull off the rags or identify...
Meanwhile, other students had taken Pieper and Vernaglia to Stillman Infirmary. Pieper was soon released, but Vernaglia was rushed to Mass General...