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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1979
Page
11
Walter Carlos, famed for Switched on Bach and Clockwork Orange score, recounts gender transition to Wendy Carlos in Playboy April 3. She says she felt female since youth and has changed “skin and bone” to live as a woman, while her parents still call her Walter.
Washington AP reports the Consumer Product Safety Commission probes whether asbestos in hair dryers causes cancer. J C Penney and Montgomery Ward halted asbestos dryers. others may follow. The agency issued a special order to nine major makers to disclose asbestos usage and model details.
John Arthur MacLean, 32, charged in a $1 million robbery and tied to up to 2,000 burglaries with $125 million in goods stolen over six years along the Eastern Seaboard. Detectives traced a police scanner to him via the alias Bob Frost and police crystals, leading to a $150000 bond and subsequent rearrest. MacLean’s arrest followed renewed charges for January 27 robbery at Keith Wold’s home. Fort Lauderdale police and FBI connections highlighted by detective McLellan.
Burt Hecht, a 46-year-old former Jamestown social worker, filed a federal suit claiming he was fired for being Jewish after an EEOC finding of probable cause. The suit says supervisors issued religious insults and forced termination after unfounded accusations. Hecht now works at the Orange County NY Mental Health Office.
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