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...leading experts on heart and artery diseases. Dr. Irvine H. Page (TIME cover, Oct. 31, 1955) has spent a working lifetime studying problems of the circulatory system as president of the American Heart Association in 1955 and research director of the Cleveland Clinic until 1966. Last week, at 66, he told fellow cardiologists at the association's annual meeting in San Francisco what had happened...
...thing. Last week, though he later qualified his remarks enough to note the legal and possible long-term hazards of marijuana, Goddard's basic equation of pot and liquor still stood. Immediate outrage followed. Among the most incensed was Dr. Robert W. Baird, director of the Haven narcotics clinic in Harlem and chairman of the Suffolk County (N.Y.) narcotics-control commission. Dr. Goddard, said Dr. Baird, has done "irreparable damage across the college campuses as well as in the high schools...
Undaunted, he equipped a mobile birth control clinic in Long Island, and started his campaign in earnest. On May 15, 1965, he was arrested, charged with violating New York law on two counts, exhibiting and publicly teaching methods of contraception, and his career in the courts began. Before the New York Supreme Court could rule on whether or not the two statutes were violations of Constitutional rights, the state legislature voted to liberalize the laws anyway, and Baird had triumphed. John Lindsay wrote him, "I certainly agree with you that the statute under which you were arrested is an obsolete...
...That isn't to say, though, that many Harvard and Radcliffe students have not come to me for help. The day I spoke at Harvard last spring two couples approached me and I helped them. I have a clinic in New York that deals with birth control problems. Anyone who calls me I'll send to physicians. If you can read between the lines, you'll know I send them for abortions. If I didn't do this, they would get involved with quacks...
...going to stay in Massachusetts whether I go to jail or not," he added. "My mobile clinic is coming down from New York in a few weeks and I'm going to set it up in Roxbury...