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Every night up to 3,000 angry residents of Chateauguay, Quebec, gathered outside the barricade that Mohawk Indians raised across the approach to the Mercier Bridge, a major artery into Montreal. Rowdies grappled with police and burned effigies of Mohawks hanging from a lamppost. Since a policeman was killed two weeks ago during an assault on another Mohawk blockage at Oka, 19 miles to the west, that town and Chateauguay have become scenes of an edgy standoff over the volatile issue of Indian land rights. The Indians have been protesting plans to expand a golf course into a forest that...
...parlor tricks, from a no-hands bobbing of his hat on his head to incessant, playful swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water." In a leaning-on-a-lamppost number, Lindsay achieves a slouchy elegance that visually echoes Gene Kelly's title solo in Singin' in the Rain. Plunkett is melodious as "my girl," but Lindsay's performance practically shouts, "Look at me!" and thoroughly rewards the attention...
...other official nominee who said he supportsdivestment, Parker G. Montgomery '49, said hewould not comment on the letter because, "I nevervoluntarily step in front of dog pissing on a lamppost...
...Saturday--Hours after issuing the first ID cards for undergraduate alcohol privileges, in three separate incidents, three unnamed Harvard administrators are picked up for a hit-and-run decimation of a Memorial Drive lamppost, overturning the guard house on the way out of the Yard, and trashing the new sculpture next to Out of Town News. All three are charged with DWI. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III graciously leaves a black-tie gala to bail them out of the Cambridge Police Department jail...
Stewart was arrested by a Cambridge police officer on the night of October 2 after taping Radcliffe Lesbians Association posters to a Dunster St. lamppost...