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...children should be shielded from too much worldly knowledge too soon. Because the conservatives place so much emphasis on family and parenthood, they are ready to sacrifice adults' freedom of choice. There is a gruff, honest passion in many of their complaints. Says the Rev. Albert Gagnier of Brockton, Mass., a Moral Majority member and father of three: "I paid money for my TV set just like everybody else and I expect to get good programming out of it." So long as the air waves are public he deserves to find some programs that suit him. The problem...
...Brockton's Marvelous Marvin Hagler successfully defended his world middleweight championship Saturday night with a technical knockout over Fully Obel...
...Hagler is coming up the aisle, Marvelous Marvin, dancing his little dance. Finally, there is some real noise in this building. I cannot hear the heater and I am glad. The people are going nuts. They love him because he comes from Brockton. He is one of them. They are going nuts...
...Brockton's Marvelous Marvin Hagler will take on Britain's Alan Minter today in a scheduled 15-round world middleweight championship bout at Wembley Stadium in London, England...
Some, like Dorothy Harding Trower '30, who has spend more than 30 years doing a radio program on Brockton's WBET, became quite adept at straddling career and family. "A lot of people thought it was demeaning for me to go on the air. Somehow, though, I didn't give a shoot," Trower says, adding, "Now it's all different. Nobody's looking askance on women for pursuing careers today...