Word: baird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roxbury District Court judge refused jurisdiction yesterday in the case of William Baird, controversial birth control advocate...
Judge Charles I. Taylor sent the case to the next higher court -- Suffolk Superior -- where, he said, Baird could begin to test the constitutionality of Massachusetts' birth control laws. The case will be heard June 5, Baird was arrested at Boston University last month after he handed out birth control devices to students. He also violated Massachusetts law here by explicitly describing birth control methods in a speech at Lowell Lecture Hall, although he was not arrested at that time...
...from Michigan's Hope College and Harvard Business School, in 1940 joined the Wisconsin Co., a Milwaukeebased investment banking firm, as a $125-a-month securities analyst. After a Navy hitch in the South Pacific during World War II, Haack returned to the firm-subsequently renamed Robert W. Baird & Co.-and worked in underwriting, sales and trading before becoming a partner in 1950. Haack further broadened his experience as a governor of the Midwest Stock Exchange, moved to Washington in 1964 as the $80,000-a-year president of the N.A.S.D...
Kudos for acting go without question to Dick Backus as Wilfred and David Cole as Point. Backus, looking like a Bil Baird marioneette, stole the show every time he was on stage, and even if G&S suffered a bit in the process, he was outrageously funny. Cole played his part with panache, executing the comic baritone's infamous patter songs with skill and incisiveness...
...speech, Baird explained the methods of using the diaphragm, cervical cap, pill, intra-uteral device, creams, jellies, foams, and male prophylactics. He said that many college students have false or incomplete ideas about birth control, and claimed that Harvard University students have come to him for advice about abortions...