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...marches or meetings can be printed and hand-distributed to every house and apartment in Southie. "When we get our mind on something, the whole community pitches in," explained one resident. Says Harvard Historian Stephan Thernstrom: "The solidarity in South Boston is one of a people trapped there." The bitterest irony in Southie's implacable determination to keep blacks out of South Boston High is that many residents frankly concede that the 71-year-old school is one of the city's worst. But it is theirs. "My father came here from Ireland to find freedom," says...
...Greenspan showing that wages have lagged behind prices and thus are not the primary cause of inflation. But the labor leaders voiced suspicion that Ford may yet resort to wage-price controls, despite his public disclaimers, and they sharply criticized the Federal Reserve's money policy. The bitterest attack was delivered in a separate forum by AFL-CIO President George Meany. In a speech in Kansas City, Mo., he declared that any Soviet economist who had as bad a record as Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns would be "promoted" to Siberia...
...passing through the longest and bitterest political struggle that our nation has had in 100 years. Families have been split, old friendships shattered, careers ruined, public men disgraced, and great quantities of hate pumped into the American system...
...abate and controls to be phased out before announcing his departure. Now 53, he will take occasional assignments for the White House, but says, "I don't have any idea, really," of what he will do for a full-time job. Displaying the integrity that even his bitterest critics admire, he refused to consider the subject until he actually announced his resignation...
When Martin Luther laid the cornerstone of the Reformation 456 years ago, the object of his bitterest invective was the Pope. Last week, as part of a continuing ecumenical study on doctrinal problems dividing Lutherans and Roman Catholics, a commission of 13 Catholic and 13 Lutheran theologians issued a remarkable statement. The issue of papal primacy, they said, "need not be a barrier to reconciliation" of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches...