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Some doctors in the gray Medical School buildings on Longwood Avenue are already saying that such government interference threatens academic freedom, but such high-faulting principals don't mean much when the government displays more responsibility for people's rights than a private institution does. It is better that Harvard is beholden to the government under contract than to a large corporation. Monsanto, for example--which does not have a legal pretense to representing the interests of poor people...
...program will be centered at Boston Hospital for Women, on Longwood Ave. in Roxbury, and the staff will include 10 full time doctors and 12 interns...
...lest they overrun it. But this is no motley ball-park public. It is a public with money, or at least with pretensions to it. The men wear Fred Perry sportshirts and the women have tennis tans. They have come, not just to see the pros, but to see Longwood, and to mix with...
...YEARS AGO, Jimmy Connors (20 year old winner of Longwood, 1973) was a winner in the making. Straight out of Bellevue, Ill. Connors had money, but he was not a rich boy. Because Connors needed to win. A rich boy is reared in the tradition of the gentleman sportsman--where it is gauche to want to win too badly, and where giving all to one sport at the exclusion of the others is missing out on the good life. He doesn't need to win because he is already there. But Connors was brought up under the pressures...
...LONGWOOD, Stockton met Connors in the quarterfinals. Connors had upset Smith in the first round, and the winner would meet Richey in the semis. They were playing for maybe the fiftieth time, but this one counted for more than most. Stockton never got started. Both were edgy, hitting too soon. But Stockton was taking his misses more to heart than Connors. He let them wear down his pace, and he trudged ever heavier from side to side on game changes. He grew cautious when his anger should have triggered an offensive--hugging the backcourt when he should have attacked from...