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...school board members are proud of their tough stand. Says Norman Murray, the father of seven children and a former FBI man: "I don't have a corner on the world's wisdom, but I think we were right." He plans to spend much of the money that the district makes from teacher and union fines on remedial pro grams in basic skills...
...Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter of the late Carolyn Hagner Shaw, who presided over it for 34 years. Carolyn Hagner Shaw was a subtle and funny arbiter who could savor the preposterous in Washington's manners. Once a woman addressed an urgent query to her: Could she, the woman asked, fulfill her deceased husband...
After all, the Crimson defense was riddled with injuries. Marko Coric, Scott McLeod (shoulder injury), tackles Chuck Durst and Bob Murray (ankle fracture), and linebacker Bob Woolway (irregular heartbeat) all were lost by the first quarter...
...administration at the University of Chicago. "The current expansion is 3½ years old. So it's past middle age. A downturn has got to be next." Some observers feel that it would be better to have a recession sooner rather than later. Says Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum, also a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "We've now taken the painful medicine that will both slow down inflation and the economy. The alternative was a more serious downturn after a more serious inflation in 1980. The longer you postpone the distasteful medicine...
...Caltech that Astronomer Maarten Schmidt discovered the nature of quasars, perhaps the most distant objects in the universe, that Theoretical Physicist Murray Gell-Mann described the way in which more than 100 subatomic particles are related, and that Physicist Carl D. Anderson discovered the positron, a fundamental particle with an electron's mass but a positive charge. The first successful U.S. orbiting satellite, Explorer I, was launched by the school's acclaimed Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which developed the principles that make jet flight possible...