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Herbert Marcuse's doctrine that the vote is meaningless seems to have relatively few adherents among the young. This month the Boston suburb of Woburn provided a nutshell refutation of Marcuse's argument. During most of July, the town had been racked by firebombings and clashes between youths and the police. Mayor Edward F. Gill rejected virtually all the youths' demands. After an angry protest meeting, more than 50 of the young suddenly stalked across to Town Hall to protest in a quieter but far more effective way. They registered to vote. Said a spokesman: "When they...
...School was closed three days this fall as a result. When a telephone threat interrupted Senator Edward Kennedy's campaign visit at Stoneham High last month, the weary principal announced that the school would be cleared "for the usual reason." Last week mysterious fires damaged high schools in Woburn and Chelsea...
Although the completed guidance system will not be ready for widespread installation for at least five years, those who kept pace with the pacers deemed the experiment unbelievably successful. "It is incredible," marveled Woburn Supermarket Checker Jeannette Gillis. "When you pull out, there isn't a car there." Most motorists, in fact, like Billerica Store Manager Bob Gaughan, found the system almost suspiciously painless. "I still had a tendency," Gaughan remembers, "to turn around and look at the oncoming traffic. Just to make sure...
They are archrivals in Britain's business of turning stately homes into tourist traps. Yet the Duke of Bedford invited the Marauess of Bath to open his $2,500,000 "Wild Animal Kingdom" at Woburn Abbey. Only the animals refused to cooperate. As Bath drove around the preserve in his Bentley, a lion named Reggie leaped onto the hood. Three baby elephants had charged him as he cut the blue ribbon. When Bath held his ground, 450-lb. Tess trampled his foot. Lamely, his lordship predicted success for Bedford's menagerie...
...There's no such thing as Wobon. You must be thinking of Woburn. Anyway, I'm in Waban, a village of Newton, and certainly you've heard of Newton, haven...