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...police picked them up. But as arrests mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest court defeat handed Avatar to date. But the editors have no intention of toning the paper down now that city authorities have helped...
Like most German industries at the close of World War II, the sprawling electronics operation of Siemens AG was mostly rubble. When the country began to reindustrialize, Siemens was pump-primed with Marshall Plan money-then German determination took over. The company's aggressive salesmen traveled the world to sell a full range of electronics products. Late last month, Siemens won a $75 million contract to build a nuclear power plant in Argentina-Latin America's first. In the process, it defeated such old nuclear hands as G.E. and Westinghouse...
Conflict between Avatar salesmen and the City of Cambridge broke out once again yesterday when eight Cambridge policemen picked up Brian Kelly '66 for selling the 20th issue of the magazine to a teenager in Harvard Square...
Judge Lawrence F. Feloney, who handed down the convictions, ruled that only issue 18, of the three issues for which arrests have been made, was obscene. He acquitted four other Avatar salesmen arrested selling issues 16 and 17 to minors on the grounds that those issues were not obscene...
...only dismissal of a case involving the sale of issue 18 came after James E. Thomas, senior adviser to freshmen at Harvard, appeared as a character witness for one of the Avatar salesmen. John Shirley, 22, was acquitted after Thomas testified and after Shirley's own testimony that he was unaware of the newspaper's contents...