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...45th case which the Witnesses have fought up through the lower courts to the highest tribunal in the land. As in 37 of the other cases, the court found in favor of the Witnesses, unanimously reversed a ruling by the Rhode Island supreme court that the city of Pawtucket had been justified in denying a Witness the use of a city park for a religious meeting...
...impossible because voting records are not filed by sex and there are no "women's precincts." But in traditionally pro-labor districts of Indiana, for example, election officials opened voting machines at noon "for repairs," found Ike leading after a heavy morning's vote by women. In Pawtucket, R.I., a Democratic poll-watcher cast his eye over long lines of women waiting to vote on election morning and commented: "Republican women always come out early. The only thing is that this time there are twice as many Republican women...
Take a couple of days off some time, borrow somebody else's car, and drive at best through and at worst into this city. Before you even reach its limits you will negotiate picturesque Pawtucket, probably the only city in the East where U. S. One--Maine to Florida and main truck route of the nation--squeezes itself into a two lane subsidiary street and wiggles furtively through a series of coal yards while tree-studded residential boulevards intersect it every twenty-five yards. Yes, go through Pawtucket. But the worst is yet to come...
...seems that Pawtucket network WPAW decided to switch from a wavelength of 1030 to 550 during the summer. When students returned to Cambridge and turned their radio sets to the College network, they occasionally discovered classical music coming in with jazz overtones, jazz coming in with a news commentator's monotone, and newscasts coming in just plain incomprehensible...
...Pawtucket network should get any louder, the College station will have to move on to another wavelength...