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EVEN public officials react with amusement or indifference to the "population problem" of Cambridge. The public is aware of the population problem as it exists in the streets of India; the bloated belly of a child is immediately called to mind. The ironic result of the mass media's concern with this issue is the creation of a sensationalism of suffering which renders the public unresponsive and insensitive to the less graphic conditions that exist in this city...
...Massachusetts it wasn't 30 years ago, or even ten; it was two years ago, August 8, 1966, that the state legislature approved a law which permitted qualified physicians to prescribe methods of contraception to married women. (As a result of a federal law passed this last session, funds will be cut off as of July 1, 1968 unless the state provides birth control information and service to both married and unmarried women.) Additionally, and almost humorously, the Massachusetts law prohibits the pharmacist from selling any item he knows is for contraceptive purposes; condoms, as everyone knows, are for sanitation...
Sponsors of the proposal wrote that "most Negroes are now caught up in a vicious cycle. In the case of education they are condemned to inadequate grammar and secondary schools. As a result, they do not attend the better colleges in sufficient numbers and are under-represented in graduate schools. This situation means that there is a continuing luck of black professionals, lawyers, doctors...
...that they will be first to put a man on the moon-probably by late next year. The Soviet moon schedule, they point out, was set back a year by the disastrous malfunction of Soyuz 1 (TIME, May 5), which took the life of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. As a result, the Russians have been forced to increase the tempo of space activity. They are now spending twice as much as the U.S., and even hold a spare booster rocket in readiness during each major space shot in case the primary booster fails...
...write for the New Yorker is actually to be a free-lance writer with office. The writer comes up with his own idea for a piece, the magazine agrees to pay the expenses for the research and keeps advancing the writer money while he is writing it. As a result, Kahn admits, he is usually in debt to the New Yorker. "I can't afford to take a year off like those professors can," he says. Because of this set-up, Kahn says he does not worry about the size of his audience for pieces or books. "I write...