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Dublin's Dr. Raymond G. Cross noted that the incidence of anencephaly and of a comparable abnormality, spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), varied with religion. Records of 700 cases of these abnormalities showed that the rate was 2.8 per 1,000 births among Catholics, 2 per 1,000 among Protestants, and only .7 per 1,000 among Jews...
...street corner of Newark and screamed loudly enough was sure to get on the air. "Television seems to have the knack of picking people off the street who were the most volatile and leading them into making the most violent kind of statements," complains Newark Police Director Dominick A. Spina. The stations made no attempt to sort out the various agitators they put on-camera or assess their importance. "They picked on every black face who proclaimed himself a leader," says Donald Malafronte, administrative assistant to Mayor Addonizio. "Casuals who had never raised a voice in community affairs...
...whose arrest last month on a traffic charge ignited a five-day riot there sued police for $700,000, claiming that they beat him with fists and nightsticks. Cabbie John Smith (TIME cover, July 21) filed suit against the two arresting officers and, for good measure, Police Director Dominick Spina and Chief Oliver Kelly, charging "they failed to properly train and supervise" the Newark force...
Smith came up against a police force commanded by a tough, no-nonsense Italian-American named Dominick A. Spina, 56, who won repute on the virtues that mark the best of American law-enforcement officers: personal courage and political neutrality. A stocky, cigar-chomping man with steely grey hair and temperament, he heads a 1,400-man force that is heavily Italian, but-according to city officials-includes some 400 Negroes as well. Until last week, Spina could claim the ultimate satisfaction in police work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...