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...divorcee of 45 whose forebears arrived in Massachusetts in 1650. Daughter of a Pittsburgh contractor, she served on Eisenhower's staff in World War II as a WAC officer-cryptographer, later studied law at Ohio Northern University and South Texas College; she has spent 17 years as a supervisor of social workers. A former member of the leftish Socialist Labor Party, she claims to have forsaken Christianity at 13, after reading the Bible; since then, reason has been her only faith, and she boasts: "Nobody has ever beaten me in an argument...
...surprisingly, her oldest son Bill, 17, rebelled in 1961 against "that hogwash" of school prayers. Delighted to assault what she calls "hypocrisy," Mrs. Murray then and there embarked on a new career as a kind of court mother. The Baltimore public welfare department fired her from her supervisor's job. Various persons-whom she delights in describing as "My Christian neighbors"-have trampled her flowers, broken her windows, beaten up Bill and his young brother more than 100 times. Flooded with abusive letters, she has received everything from a psychotic document endlessly repeating the word "kill" to a newspaper...
...record against the civil rights bill. But any Republican stands to gain. Whether the Presidential candidate does so or not depends less on his statements and the Republican platform than on the politicians and professional bigots on the ward and precinct level--like the candidates for Milwaukee County supervisor. There they can appeal to the fears and fears and prejudices that are almost never discussed in national and state campaigns...
Ingrained Skepticism. In November, Jedlicka scored a different kind of coup: S. & L. Supervisor Chris Stolfa of the Illinois Department of Financial Institutions resigned. Though he was not accused of having a hand in the S. & L. frauds, Stolfa was badly hurt by the revelation that one S. & L. outfit had celebrated the opening of new offices with the help of $5,746 of jollity purchased from a Stolfa-owned liquor store. In mid-January, Jedlicka reported that Chicago's Deputy Building Commissioner Robert Ewbank had signed loans totaling $800,000 with two of the questionable S. & L.s. Ewbank...
That is what Martin Greenhouse, 39, did one day last week, and he was tooling along Manhattan's East River Drive on his way to his job as electrical supervisor at Brooklyn's Navy Yard just as dawn was breaking around 6 o'clock. There was a slight glaze of icy snow on the road, and at a turn just south of 96th Street, Martin's car skidded into a lazy U-turn...