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Baird was arrested after distributing contraceptive foam to an unmarried woman at a public meeting at B.U. in April, 1967. He was found guilty by the Suffolk Superior Court of exhibiting a birth control device and of distributing a device to an unmarried woman...
USUALLY FEW PEOPLE in Boston are concerned about the election for Suffolk County Sheriff. But tomorrow's contest between Republican incumbent John Sears and Democratic School Committee Chairman Thomas S. Eisenstadt is not a usual election. For this election will determine both the future of the Sheriff's office itself, and the political futures of two diametrically opposed contenders...
...about law and order is rampant. Democratic Governor John King, now running for the Senate, discerns a fine grey line between treason and dissent: "We have reached the point where we had better draw that line and say, 'You shall not pass.' " John Sears, Republican sheriff of Suffolk County (Boston) has been appointing Negro deputies, attempting to work with ghetto groups, and telling his men that they need not carry weapons at all times. His innovations have loosed a cascade of criticism from voters that, he admits, "will probably cost me the election...
...Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday effectively cleared--for the time being--the last legal obstacle holding up construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library...
Died. Rene d'Harnoncourt, 67, Vienna-born director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art from 1949 until his retirement last July; of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car while on a stroll; in New Suffolk, L.I. An authority on primitive art as well as a modernist, D'Harnoncourt first established himself in the United States in 1930 when he gathered and put on tour a formidable (1,200 objects) collection of Mexican artifacts dating back to the 16th century; he went on to teach at Sarah Lawrence College, became art adviser to Nelson...