Behavior: Let's Hear It for Stutterers' Lib!

Remember Moses, Darwin and Maugham

Is Porky Pig a menace? Bob Goldman, a San Francisco food-service consultant, thinks so. Says Goldman, a stutterer: "The message of Porky Pig is that we are ridiculous and dull, and can't get a sentence out right."

Offing the pig is only a minor goal of Goldman's National Stuttering Project, which was organized last year and has already expanded into 15 chapters in California, Oregon and Washington. The fledgling N.S.P. regards the nation's 2.6 million stutterers as another oppressed minority and hopes to weld them into a potent lobbying group. "We don't want special treatment, we just want...

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