Hit Parade

MANCHESTER, N.H.--The New Hampshire Sunday News refused to distribute its Parade Magazine supplement yesterday because it found Parade's cover article on sexual behavior was "distasteful" and did not meet the paper's standards.

"It is the sort of thing that one may seek in an adult bookstore but, frankly, we don't think anyone expects to find it in a Sunday family newspaper," Publisher Nackey Loeb and Editor-in-Chief Joseph McQuaid wrote in a front-page announcement in yesterday's editions.

The Parade story was based on a nationwide survey of 1100 men and, women who completed written questionnaires on their sex lives.

The Sunday Tele ram in Worcester, Mass., and the News-Free Press in Chattanooga, Tenn., also refused to carry the magazine.