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...WOODBURN, Massachusetts: In what could be one of the year's more dubious recruitment tactics, irate parents in Massachusetts are charging that a Baptist church lured hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic...
...WOODBURN, Massachusetts: In what could be one of the year's more dubious recruitment tactics, irate parents in Massachusetts are charging that a Baptist church lured hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic...
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...William K. Woodburn, Mrs. Rockefeller's lawyer, walked into the county clerk's office and filed Case No. 197,412. It was a two-page complaint charging that Mrs. Rockefeller had been treated "with extreme cruelty, entirely mental in character, which caused the plaintiff great unhappiness and injured her general health." He also asked that "all persons be excluded from the court," as permitted by Nevada...
...Reno, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, 54, began waiting out the six weeks' residence period required before she could sue for a Nevada divorce from New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Though Mrs. Rockefeller refused to see reporters, and her attorney, former Nevada Democratic National Committeeman William Woodburn, was scarcely more communicative, the presumption was that the grounds for the action would be the familiar Nevada catchall: mental cruelty...