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A majority of Cambridgeshire's county councilmen agree that Vienna-born Dr. Hildegarde Broda, 42, more than earns the salary she gets as assistant county medical officer in charge of schoolchildren.

Not so, says Tory Councilman Archibald Claude Taylor, former mayor of Cambridge. Last fall Councilman Taylor did his best to prevent Physician Broda from getting a raise in pay (from £950 to £1,300 yearly) but was voted down. Last week he was busy trying to get the doctor fired from her job altogether. Reason: last August, Dr. Broda married Atomic Physicist Alan Nunn May—ex-convict and a key member of the U.S.S.R.'s wartime atomic-spy...

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