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...opinion page. Globe columnists displayed a different aspect of liberal coverage. Jeremiah V. Murphy toured South Boston and subsequently published a terribly patronizing piece on the town, even lingering one moment at a bar to applaud the rude virtue of one citizen who was nursing a shot glass on the mahogany. Murphy did not care to denounce these Bostonians for what is a most ugly and virulent strain of racism...
...championship ring plus the $22,500 first prize. The money reflects the general boom in tennis that leads Open Director Bill Talbert to think it is "easily conceivable" that Forest Hills will be worth half a million dollars in five years. This is the kind of inflation the competitors applaud...
...funeral directors, Neptune's board of directors recently acquired a full-time mortician, an embalmer and a broker. But Telophase refuses to bend, and has boldly filed a countercomplaint against the Cemetery Board, charging excessive harassment. Says Neptune's Denning: "Telophase is a real maverick. We applaud them in their fight...
Women's groups generally applaud the change, but in a new book, The Charge Is Rape, Journalist Gerald Astor warns that repeal of corroboration laws may not help. "The law can say what it pleases the legislators to have it say, but the jury will decide whom to believe...
...number of blacks on college faculties increased only from 2.2% to 2.9%, the number of women from 19.1% to 20%. The figures, which have not changed appreciably over the past two years, suggest that as yet neither side of the great faculty-hiring debate really has much to applaud-or deplore...