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...When Ms. magazine featured a Harvard professor on its cover last December, it sold more copies than a month earlier, when the feminist periodical spotlighted rock star Bette Midler...
...takes a Hinckley to change the insanity laws and a De Lorean to curtail sting operations, then the case of Geraldine Ferraro may turn out to be a first step back from the piety-in-government excursion Americans have been on since Watergate. One day Ms. Ferraro's vice-presidential candidacy, perhaps her political career, hangs in the balance; the next day, after a tough and gutsy public performance-a Checkers for the '80s-she is back in gear, leaving us all to wonder if we hadn't lost our heads for just a moment...
...Ferraro. To the Times, which attaches the honorifics Mr., Mrs. and Miss to names, the problem could be solved by referring to her as Miss Ferraro. But the candidate, who is the mother of three children, does not feel happy with this appellation and has asked to be called Ms. or Mrs. Ferraro. Because the Times does not permit the use of Ms. in its columns, it is left with no choice but to call her Mrs. Last week William Safire, who ruminates on the origins and proper use of words in his Times column "On Language," took his paper...
...breaks my heart to suggest this," Safire continued, "but the time has come for Ms." The Times did not agree. Safire's editors took the unusual step of inserting a box into his column, in which they dismissed Ms. as "business-letter coinage" that is "too contrived for news writing...
...problem does not appear to exist at other major news organizations, which have stopped using honorifics or have succumbed to the use of Ms. The Associated Press prefers to leave it up to the individual involved. "Geraldine Ferraro fits easily into Ms., which is her preference," says Executive Vice President Louis Boccardi. Says Carl Miller, assistant managing news editor for the Denver Post: "It has been our policy for years to use the last name for all public officials, even if they happen to be women...