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Chanting "teenage power to the teenage people." about 30 high school students picketed Hazen's restaurant yesterday afternoon

The protest was directed against the management's new policy of not serving high school students stopping by on their way home from school.

About 7 Cambridge policemen were called out, but they merely instructed the students not to block the sidewalk. Students near the door held signs stating that "Hazen's is elitist." They asked potential customers to join the boycott.

At 3:30 p.m. the restaurant was empty, but by night time the normal volume of business had resumed.

The management told police when they arrived that the students were disruptive and didn't spend as much as regular customers.

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"They aggravate us. These kids aren't normal. They jump up on counters and scream for service. They spend the minimum and then stay around until 4 or 5 o'clock." said the afternoon cashier. "In approximately a year, I have lost 24 waitresses because of these kids," she added.

Some Harvard students passing by joined the high school protest. Several members of the November Action Coalition taught the students "power to the people" chants and showed them how to form a picket line.

George Wald, Harvard biologist, teacher, the 1967 Nobel Laureate, won the 1969 Max Berg Award Thursday and took the opportunity to propose an "American strategy" to counter "Mr. Nixon's southern strategy."

At a press conference in New York, the 63-year-old professor accepted the $10.000 prize for achievements "in the prolonging or improving the quality of human life." in his speech. Wald proposed a package of issues "that the newly formed coalition of concerned Republicans and Democrats in Congress" should bring out.

Wald said Nixon's- "or is it Mitchell's" -southern strategy "called upon the worst things in American life." Wald's "American strategy," on the other hand, "calls upon the best things in American life." His proposals included immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, repeal of the draft, better housing and schools and satisfaction of other human needs.

Wald said yesterday his immediate concern is the recent "extra-legul maves" against the Black Panthers. He urged that the Law School draft a statement condemning these moves. Wald had also been in contact with the offices of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '56 and Sen. Edward W. Brooke about the Panther matter.

As a result of his recent political-activity, Wald has received invitations to appear as a guest on both the Dick Cavett and David Susskind shows. However, he has not accepted either offer to date.

Holy Cross faces a general student strike following the withdrawal of 64 of the college's 66 black students.

The blacks left to protest the "racist nature" of the school's disciplinary proceedings against students who participated in an obstructive picket line almed at a G.E. recruiter Wednesday. Four black students were among the 16 suspended for violating the institution's week-old "open campus rule."

Holy Cross blacks felt that those punished had been unfairly singled out from the group of about 65 pickets and that the college's extraordinarily efficient recognition and punishment of the blacks involved in the demonstration constituted racial discrimination.

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