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...Hicks and her loyal anti-integration ally, School Committeeman William O'Connor, while helping to elect Thomas Atkins to the city council. Atkins, 28, who has a master's degree from Harvard in Near Eastern studies and is former executive secretary of Boston's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, will be the first Negro on the council in 16 years...
Janet Murray refuses to follow the USES line. Three weeks ago, she presided over the founding of an exclusively-Spanish-speaking Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAWS) chapter, which was formed because of the language difficulties encountered in the regular South End group. MAWS, whose Roxbury division helped spark the riots there last summer with a sit-in at Grove Hall, Roxbury's welfare office, is dedicated to keeping at least one segment of the poor strong and united. MAWS pressures welfare agencies to deal fairly with women whose husbands have deserted them...
Gerald A. Berlin, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, remarked yesterday that to induct demonstrators is "clearly to use the selective service process as a form of punishment." Berlin deplored what he called Hershey's recommendation that the draft boards "take justice into their own hands...
Another problem for Planned Parenthood is Baird's own willingness to give contraceptive to the unmarried. "We would waive this consideration," says Stephen J. Plank, assistant professor of population studies and president of the state chapter of Planned Parenthood, "if we thought Baird had a better chance to win his point. It doesn't make sense to violate our charter to support such a risky case as his, though." Planned Parenthood prefers to handle the problem of unmarrieds, Plank says, by "not investigating the marital status of those who come to us for advice. We recommend all such individuals...
When the history of the United States in the twentieth century is written, the City of Boston is going to deserve an ugly chapter all its own--and the most painful paragraphs within that chapter will be those which describe the educational genocide being carried out to this day with the full knowledge of many people within the Boston Public Schools...