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Family planning by contraception was the cause. Margaret Sanger was its champion. Half a century ago, when she raised the banners of her lonely crusade, she was lacerated from the pulpits as a "lascivious monster" bent on "murdering" unborn children. Birth control, a phrase she herself invented, was unmentionable, immoral and illegal. It was a federal crime merely to send information about it through the mails. She was arrested eight times. Her zeal led to the breakup of her first marriage. Yet when she died last week of arteriosclerosis in Tucson at the age of 82, her vision had been...
...acquisitions, only one other marble group, found at Tarsus in 1876, is known to exist. As he is portrayed in Cleveland's marbles, Jonah resembles the Greek river god appearing in some Antioch mosaics, and the sculptor gave his fancy free rein in carving the curious sea monster with leonine feet and massive ears...
...Ketos in Greek means "sea monster" or "sea dragon"; not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale...
...Monster presses roll...
...some 30 years ago. Thomson has five grandchildren; and in preparation for visits from the older ones, he maintains in his Westfield home a slot machine of the sort classically known as a "one-armed bandit." He even furnishes the kids with dimes to try their luck at the monster. Explains he: "I want to teach them that no matter what they do, they're going to lose money when they gamble...