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...what the real plot was." And so in the 1938 campaign, embattled opponents of Plan E termed it the work of "Harvard communists," and the city council voted to symbolically "secede" from Harvard should the law pass. That idea appealed to the Harvard Lampoon, whose members dressed in storm trooper outfits and marched down Massachusetts Avenue toward the city Hall to demand that they too be made a separate state. Sutton records that Councilor Michael (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan was descending the steps as the Poonies arrived. He tried to stop the parade, and fell to the ground...
...protesters. The police, it is said, have trained for months, and been personally briefed by top state officials on the use of force. Late Saturday afternoon, a police dog without benefit of the training chases a television crew that has been allowed inside the fence and then bites a trooper on the leg. Gallen personally orders that the dog be removed...
Domestic landmarks dot this battlefield: a cop pulls a protester from the treehouse he had climbed into; a trooper stands guard duty in front of an above-the-ground swimming pool; two men sit in lawn chairs sipping Michelob until the tear gas gets too thick and they retreat to their glassed-in-porch. After the first rush, there seems little hope of gaining the site, but scattered charges at the fence continue. As fast as the grappling hooks are attached, troopers with bolt cutters cut them off the fence, often sending those on the other end reeling backwards, losers...
...civil court judge decided Friday afternoon not to prohibit the showing of the film because did not find it obscene, the district attorney's office chose to make the arrests--a decision that begs reason, not to mention legality. In effect, an assistant clerk of courts and a state trooper overruled a civil court judge by confiscating the film and imposing an injunction of their...
...perfume she is wearing and another where she got her arm's length of bracelets. McGraw even consents to posing for a photograph with a man who "wants to drive his wife nuts." She says she doesn't enjoy it but realizes its part of the job. A real trooper. But the caravan is rolling and she enters the waiting van for the next appointment...