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...held up a package of contraceptive foam she had bought in a drug store on Tremont Street. "And the state collects a sales tax of seven cents on each purchase," she said...
Baird, recently sentenced to three months in jail for giving a package of contraceptive foam to a 22-year-old unmarried woman, said that the legislature was fooling itself if it thought it was protecting the morality of the citizens of Massachusetts by upholding the present...
...theater has seven television screens arranged in a semicircle. Visitors sit and lie on slabs of foam rubber thrown on the floor in front of the sets. The show consists of about two dozen videotapes shown in various sequences on different sets while films and light shows are cast on the movie screen behind them. No need to get stoned; the show does...
Tertiary Trouble. In the early 1960s, after one detergent ingredient had been found to foam as readily on rivers and lakes as in Laundromats, the industry converted to another chemical. Right now it is searching for an alternative to phosphates. One possibility is a chemical called NTA which can replace a significant portion of the phosphates in a box of detergent. Even so, some experts agree that the only true solution is the construction of "tertiary" treatment sewage plants that would reduce phosphates from all sources to harmless...
...Foam-Rubber Swords. Nonliterary objects offered for sale in the Whole Earth Catalog range from the practical to the whimsical, from power tools and tractors to "Boffers"-$11 foam-rubber swords that the catalogue calls "the first significant advance in weaponry since the encounter group." The Ashley Thermostatic Wood Burning Circulator is an $80 Franklin stove, equipped with a thermostat, that will go up to twelve hours without refueling. The Inquiry Box is a $19.96 gadget designed to teach theory building and theory testing: "By pulling and pushing the things that stick out and by poking around inside with...