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Currently, the group is putting its energies behind a bill pending in the state legislature. The bill would prohibit the construction by state agencies of any new highways in the metropolitan area for a year...
...bill would amend present Massachusetts criminal statutes which prohibit the prescription or sale of contraceptive devices by physicians or pharmacists. Under the statutes, which were enacted between 1840 and 1880, a doctor is also Forbidden to advise a patient on birth-control methods...
...House Bill 1773: this would prohibit the MDC from building the underpasses until it had completed a survey of the Charles River Basin and determined that the underpasses fitted in with "the most advantageous development of the river front area...
Fugu chefs pass strict examinations before they are licensed to practice their risky art, but no Japanese politician would dare prohibit fugu, or even its dangerous entrails. Many of them, including Premier Eisaku Sato, are passionate fugu lovers...
...LABOR: While the President asked for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14-B, which allows states to have right-to-work laws that prohibit compulsory union shops, any real presidential pressure to force this measure through Congress would almost certainly create an uproar. It might harden the conservative-liberal schisms in both houses to the point where Johnson could lose valuable support on other more important bills. Though repeal of the clause was demanded in the 1960 and 1964 Democratic platforms, there seems little likelihood the President will risk a fight for it now. Says Mansfield...