Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia's once elegant North 33rd Street stands a red brick Victorian house surrounded by trash, garbage and human excrement. Children and dogs play in the yard, while adults lean over a 6-ft.-high wooden barricade and shout obscenities at passersby. "This is our house, and we are not going to let the city take it," vows a young woman. "We will defend our house. We will defend our children...
...communal group's lifestyle soon brought objections from neighbors. Members refuse to bathe with soap, and many wear their hair in unkempt dreadlocks. They "recycle" their refuse by dumping it in the yard, a practice that attracts hordes of rats. MOVE mothers give birth naturally, biting off their babies' umbilical cords. Their children do not attend school and usually go naked-even in winter. Members also reject burial; at one point they showed reporters the shriveled corpse of a month-old baby who had died from undisclosed causes...
Water pressure to all dorms and buildings in the Yard will be low on Saturday, August 12. There will be no hot water from 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Full service will be resumed after that but it is adyisable not to use the laundry facilities in Matthews or Holworthy for the duration of the weekend. Canaday will have full service all day Saturday. This inconvenience is due to the MBTA extension and the relocation of the city water supply lines...
...More like a short story, Watson. And hardly new. A Mr. Ellery Queen will have already written A Study in Terror in 1966, postulating that Jack was an aristocrat named the Duke of Shires. Other literature will theorize that the killer was a Scotland Yard inspector or a member of the royal family...
...bones sticking in the craw of the Harvard administration is that The Crimson has always been able to decide for itself exactly how to vary that mix of stories. Once upon a time--in 1969, when the tear gas was billowing and the Cambridge police were storming across the Yard--the powers-that-were tried to get the paper to alter its pro-strike editorial policy. When that attempt failed, certain alumni and faculty helped endow The Harvard Independent, the College's weekly, as a "conservative" alternative. The Independent has long since evolved into a middle-of-the-road journal...