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...history. FARBER CASE DULLS THE EDGE OF THE PRESS'S SILVER SWORD ran the headline in the Post over a column by a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter, Haynes Johnson. Now it was Rosenthal's turn to get testy. "I wrote Johnson that his piece was the 'nadir of journalism for 30 years'-accepting what a judge had to say, never checking anybody before he began to vilify." Rosenthal thinks the whole Jersey judicial establishment is after what one judge called "the imperialistic press." But says he, "if this goes through, every defense lawyer is going...
...victory over Princeton sheds reassuring light on the latter portion of the Harvard hockey season, which has not been bright lately. After losing to Boston College for the second time this season, 11-3, the Crimson plummeted to the nadir of their present campaign versus Northeastern, falling to the Huskies...
...Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying-to-write-a-play theme, which sets up worlds-within-worlds and all that twaddle, and the who-can-double-cross-whom-faster theme, the new nadir of the mystery genre, where all guns are filled with blanks, corpses fall to be later resurrected and everyone conspires against everyone else...
...even worse problem is employee morale, which analysts agree is at a nadir. Scott has tried to get employees to change the stores' hidebound ways of doing things, at last allowing local managers some autonomy. The result so far has been confusion. The chain's expensive and somewhat mystifying Price and Pride ad campaign has been aimed primarily not at luring shoppers into the stores but at bucking up the spirits of workers. So far it has failed to spark much excitement...
...pacesetting 30-share Financial Times stock market index reached an alltime high of 549.2, six points above its previous record in May 1972. Profit taking and some unfavorable corporate reports have since eroded prices somewhat; last week the FT index closed at 504.7, still a spectacular rebound from its nadir of 146 in January...