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Baird tested the law in April, 1967, by giving Emko foam to an unmarried woman before an audience of 1800 at Boston University. Six months later, he was found guilty of exhibiting contraceptives and of giving them to an unmarried woman...
Baird was arrested after distributing contraceptive foam to an unmarried woman at a public meeting at B.U. in April, 1967. He was found guilty by the Suffolk Superior Court of exhibiting a birth control device and of distributing a device to an unmarried woman...
...where building codes, union labor and obstructive bureaucrats are scarce, imaginative architects and builders have lately achieved some triumphs. To replace the reeking hovels inhabited by California migrant farm workers, Berkeley Architects Sanford Hirshen and Sim Van der Ryn designed $1,200 shelters of paper and plastic foam that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab packages to Alabama and Louisiana...
...other wires or walked on by workers or the astronauts themselves. In addition, the more than 1,000 lbs. of nonmetallic materials aboard Apollo (grease, wire insulation, spacesuits, etc.) have been checked for flammability and replaced if they failed to meet NASA's new fireproofing standards. Flammable plastic-foam pads and nylon in the astronauts' spacesuits and seat belts have been replaced by Fiberglas "Beta cloth," which is heavier and more bulky but also more fire resistant...
...more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors and designed a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch. After ten years, Duchamp's energetic nihilism reached its logical conclusion-he retired from painting. But by then his rejection of everything that had gone before had paved the way for surrealism, op, pop and kinetic...