Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spreading Blame. The boycotters spent the rest of the morning picketing the café with signs, "Don't pay more today than you paid yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...
...milk directly from producers. Brij Mohan, 38, a city councilor, started trucking in potatoes from the Punjab, sold them at artificially low prices. "These are political potatoes, which can appear only once a year," said a sour grocer watching Mohan with scales in hand dispensing potatoes on the sidewalk. But the campaign forced city merchants to lower their prices, and aroused public opinion as never before...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 has proclaimed this weekend "Cambridge Weekend for Civil Rights." The proceeds from two evening events and a sidewalk art show will help finance SNCC's program in the South...
...City of Cambridge had one of its most enjoyable summers in a long while. Its Water Department workmen ripped up nearly every street and sidewalk in the Harvard Square area during a pipe cleaning operation. Cambridge water mains are over 100 years old, and William H. McGuinness, superintendent of the Cambridge Water Department, hopes the present cleaning and relining operation will make them good for another hundred years
Police could find no bullet marks in the recently cemented sidewalk to indicate that Gilligan had fired at Powell as he lay prone. One bullet was found in Powell's body, one passed through it, the third lodged in a doorjamb of the building. When one youth was confronted by evidence of this shot, which had taken an upward course, he recanted his testimony that Gilligan had fired at the fallen Powell, admitted that he had not even seen the shooting at all. Other youngsters conceded that a truck and spectators blocked their views...