Italian Birth Controller Flouts Law to Aid Poor
Rome based Maria Luisa de Marchi and her husband, linked to the Italian Association for Demographic Education, skirt Article 553 of the Penal Code by distributing birth control supplies in Rome's slums. She ferries supplies to hundreds of women, aided by doctors from the association, while facing potential jail or fines under the fascist era decree.
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NATO Publicity Drive Aims To Spotlight Bad Housing
North Adams tenants group plans a publicity campaign with photographs to document poor housing conditions. About 10 people attended the first NATO meeting arranged by VISTA workers to boost interest in tenant rights and housing standards. A booklet on tenants' rights will be issued and meetings of the Housing Authority encouraged. Williams College dean Donald W. Gardner Jr. will teach history in Kobe Japan as a visiting professor for a year. He chaired the town zoning board and held multiple local leadership roles.
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Connecticut Black Policemen Walkout Threat In Hartford
More than a third of Hartford police officers who are Black plan to resign amid alleged discrimination in training, assignments, and promotions. The immediate trigger is a suspended officer facing a hearing delayed after a complaint by a former state resident. Governor Dempsey faces pressure from party rivals to enter the Senate race against Thomas J. Dodd.
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Howard E. Hausman
New York GOP Hurt by Crime Hearings
Albany reports speculate that the state Investigation Commission hearings into Rensselaer County politics may topple County Chairman Joseph Casey's Republican leadership in Troy. Evidence suggested kickbacks in Troy garbage contract awards and city officials' limited awareness of actions.
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Mass developer blocked from filling lake for cottages
A West Suffield Conn real estate developer Paul Heyniewicz and Mountain Laurel Realty was barred from dumping fill into Congamond Lakes to build cottages after residents complained and officials found missing licenses for the lake work. Also in Springfield Brigham Co shifts from dress goods to real estate with unclear retention plans for workers. Six Sisters take final vows at Our Mother of Sorrow Chapel in Holyoke with natives from Springfield Worcester and Holyoke. Blueberry Hill residents plan court action to stop city rezoning 284 acres for an industrial park near I 91 and Lower Westfield Road. Northamptons Eastern National Morgan Horse Show opens Thursday with nearly 600 Morgans from across the East and West.
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