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...only major exception has been the state's attempt to stop cities and towns from using the Charles as an open sewer--some say only because the noxious odors from the river, which flows 1000 yards away from the State House, interrupted the legislative process. In 1889 the state created the municipal - boundary - crossing Metropolitan Sewage District (MSD) and charged it with the maintenance of a decent sewer system for greater Boston...
...long and 14 ft. 10 in. wide, ventilated by two small barred embrasures and designed to accommodate three or four disciplinary cases at a time. Normally, the cell was stinking hot, but when 145 men and one woman were pounded into it by rifle butts, the air became noxious with excremental exhalations, and the temperature rose so rapidly that within an hour at least 50 men had roasted to death in the infernal oven. They died where they stood, the dead and the living pressed so closely together that they could not fall down. At 6 a.m., when the heavy...
Endless Tapes. In their effort to condition Morton to tolerate "noxious" music, the doctors decided to concentrate on Stardust because it was available in so many versions, so many combinations of instruments and artists. They taped "innocuous" (organ) renditions of the song and played those for Morton. Then they dubbed in larger and larger segments of a noxious Glenn Miller version and played the altered tape. They played it endlessly. Morton listened to dozens of variations and combinations of Stardust-6,000 times. Eventually it was "extinguished" as a cause of seizure...
After it was extinguished in Spanish, a French version became innocuous, although Morton knows neither language. It was extinguished with Pat Suzuki as a vocalist and with Keeley Smith. Along with some other songs, Stardust was extinguished in just about every possible variation. In the process, most other noxious music was extinguished too. Now, after ten months of treatment, Donald Morton is getting ready to go back to work as a draftsman. He has innocuous tapes that he can play if he ever feels a seizure coming on. Today Donald Morton can even abide Abide With...
...Zones of Privacy." What roiled the court, however, was the question of whether to void a law based on the power of every state to regulate public morals. Speaking for the court, Justice William O. Douglas asserted that "we do not sit as a superlegislature," playing God with noxious laws. But to Douglas, himself thrice married, Connecticut's law collided with an overriding right-privacy in marriage. In a judicial sonnet, Douglas extolled marriage as "a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred . . . an association for as noble...