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...read about how Governor Brown is dismantling the University of California, or how every L.A. lawyer is angling to replace the dead D.A., but to read the sports section. Sure, Peter Gammons writes good baseball stories for the Globe, but nobody can beat the Times's Jim Murray, who wrote in 1966, after Willie Davis made two errors in one inning of a World Series game, that it was such an incredible fact that "his glove ought to be bronzed--if it isn't already...
...sources and suspects in the case are a gallery of stereotypes: the alcoholic mother (Joanne Woodward) and the horny teen-age daughter (Melanie Griffith); the good-hearted slut (Linda Haynes) and the spoiled, untrustworthy rich girl (Gail Strickland); the menacing moneybags (Murray Hamilton), the surly chauffeur (Andy Robinson), the sardonic cop (Tony Franciosa...
...concerns equality. The Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal" has always been the most embattled of its "self-evident truths." Philosophers and politicians consistently attacked the idea. "The cornerstone of democracy is a natural inequality, its ideal the selection of the most fit," declared Nicholas Murray Butler. The bitter debate about slavery centered on the belief that neither God nor nature had created men equal in strength or gifts...
...named Lleuwana. The couple separated two years later, and when they were finally divorced in 1973, Frank got custody of Lleuwana and his own four natural children. Last year he decided to marry Lleuwana; they were refused a marriage license and went to court. But Trial Judge William R. Murray recently decided that the state law on "incestuous and void" marriage applies only to blood relatives. So Frank, 50, and Lleuwana, 23, are now Mr. and Mrs. as well as father and daughter...
Republicans Beryl Sprinkel and Murray Weidenbaum insist that more fiscal and monetary stimuli would pep up the recovery only at the price of re-igniting inflation. The rate of consumer price increases has dropped from 12% in 1974 to 3.7% in March; that may have been a fluke, but Eckstein expects it to average 4% to 6% for all of 1976. Sprinkel, however, is concerned that a stepped-up recovery would send inflation up again in 1977, forcing the Goveminent to crack down on demand; that would cause production to fall and unemployment to rise once more...