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When they first ran against each other in 1967, Jim Ryun of the University of Kansas was the world's premier miler and Marty Liquori was a 17-year-old hotshot out of Essex Catholic High in Newark, N.J. At the A.A.U. championships that year, Liquori streaked home in 3 min. 59.8 sec. to shatter the four-minute barrier for the first time in his career. The crowd cheered-but not for Marty. He finished seventh, a full 70 yds. behind Ryun, who set a new-and still unbroken-world record of 3 min. 51.1 sec. for the mile...
...individual anguish, privation and frustration that make up the whole. In Chicago, Welfare Director David L. Daniel says that the Cook County rolls will increase from 485,000 at the end of 1970 to 625,000 this year. In Newark, 25% of the population is getting aid, and Essex County Welfare Director Philip K. Lazaro says: "We are on the brink of financial disaster." In Los Angeles, the case load is now above 800,000 and rising by 10,000 to 15,000 a month...
...crisp December morn in 1472, and on a stubbled field near the Duke of Gloucester's castle at Pleshey in Essex, solid ranks of warriors confront each other. Above the castle flies the White Rose of the House of York; across the field the wind whips the Red Rose banners of Lancaster. A flight of Lancastrian arrows reaches Yorkist ranks and the battle is on. Sweaty long-bowmen in the front lines loose their shafts; behind them, -dismounted, armored knights prepare themselves. The field is alive with cries of pain and anger and the untidy flow...
...Washington in 1937, he took Connally with him as an administrative aide. Connally stayed in Washington until 1941, when he enlisted in the Navy as an ensign. At the end of the war, he was a lieutenant commander decorated three times as a flight officer on the carrier Essex. Connally used his mustering-out pay to open a radio station in Austin with ten other veterans-among them Congressman Jake Pickle and Judge Homer Thornberry, an L.B.J. Supreme Court nominee-and for three years was general manager and the largest stockholder of KVET...
...PAUL FINK Essex, Conn...