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...Harassment is too strong a word but some strange things have happened," Procopio said. During their first week of operation the lines of their public telephone were crossed so that every time a call was made the alarm at the Cambridge Armory went off. Also the major Boston newspaper distributor delivered only 25 Sunday Globes one week, then 30 another. Last week a police sergeant, armed with a ruler, came to check the legality of their street stand. "We were close enough to the curb but our competitor wasn't. It was a small victory for us," Procopio said...
Pornography's outsize profits are attracting many investors. Stock in Grove Press, a pioneer publisher of salacious books and U.S. distributor of foreign sex films, is now sold on the open market. Trading is scheduled to begin next month in the shares of another purveyor of erotica, Olympia Press; its latest skin flick, Barbara, cost $32,000 to make, grossed $ 11,700 in its second week in Manhattan and is scheduled for national distribution...
Polaroid also released a statement today saying that the company has refused to sell Polaroid identification equipment directly to the government of South Africa for use in the government's apartheid policy. The company said, however, that it sold other Polaroid equipment to an independent distributor who sold the equipment to the government...
Nteta said this evening that the company could not disclaim responsibility for what its distributor did. Nteta also said that Polaroid is relying on the ignorance of its workers about the conditions in South Africa...
Married. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 55, son of the former President, onetime Under Secretary of Commerce, and now U.S. distributor of Jaguar cars; and Felicia Warburg Sarnoff, 42, heiress to the banking fortune, former wife of the board chairman and president of RCA; he for the third time, she for the second; in a civil ceremony in Manhattan...