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...other Hard Times, back in 1929, there was what Columnist Russell Baker called a "boom in love." Now, millions of families are finding that they have to stay home and save rather than go out and spend. It may not herald a new epoch of romance, but the New Hard Times-together with newly conservative sexual mores-may solidify more families than they dissolve...
...before Stroud's third editorial, the Free Press flip-flopped in a different sense. Folksy columnist Judd Arnett revealed on the last page that Henry Ford had told him he favored a gasoline tax-big news in a town suffering the worst slump in car sales since 1958. The afternoon competition, the Detroit News, immediately saw the dynamite in the story, got a statement from Ford, and ran it on Page One, scooping the Free Press. Next day the Free Press tried lamely to recoup with predictable reactions from economists...
...Outrageous," declares Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz. "Stupid," says Boston Criminal Lawyer Joseph Oteri. "The third Watergate crime," charges New York Times Columnist William Safire...
...getting his information about the UFW? Virtually all of his "facts" seem to be taken from interviews with unidentified "farmworkers" conducted by anonymous "interviewers," held at some unspecified point in time. One look at the "sources" he constantly quotes reveals how reliable his information is: "One Washington columnist wrote..."; "...in a secret memorandum of agreement..."; "...a worker reported..."; "...another worker reported..."; "in a personal interview, one worker said..."; "...three workers who had filed suit against Cesar reported..."; "...other workers reported..."; "...one worker said..."; "...many farmworkers also complained..."; "...one woman who had worked 16 years in the fields described..."; "one worker...
...Ford Administration was only a few weeks old when Columnist William Shannon, writing in [More], found the White House-press honeymoon distressing; reporters, he said, should be more like a nagging collective mother-in-law than an affectionate spouse. Then Columnist George Will challenged the "English muffin theory of history"-a gibe at the overly generous play given Gerald Ford's staged self-service breakfast. Now the Los Angeles Times, with less humor but far more depth, has examined coverage of Ford and also found it wanting...