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...Tyree and others have laid their jobs on the line by speaking openly and frankly for the record. As this is written, the YRB administration is already attempting to ferret out other staff members with whom I spoke in confidence and without the prior knowledge of the Bureau administration. It is up to City Manager John Corcoran to insure that they will not be punished for their honesty and candor. And--if the city really cares about kids like Larry Largey and Kevin Harris and the kids who hang out on Cambridge streetcorners--it is also up to Corcoran...
...will never become a rich man by being an editor. To be sure, many contacts are made here in our ivy-covered building which pay off in dollars later in life, but on the whole a nose for news does not usually ferret out huge bundles of boodle. Here we should give pause and consider whether we wish to become one who can sign his name to checks for unlimited amounts just for his own amusement or one who must sign his name to checks that will keep his company the best of its kind, large or small...
...outer edges of man's environment live various wild animals that are not likely to survive under the conditions that man has imposed on their surroundings. The U.S. has 101 varieties, known collectively and officially as "endangered species." They range from the black-footed ferret, which roams the Dakotas, to Bachman's warbler, which flits through the swamps of the Southeast. In recent years, as the Government made it official policy to save these creatures from going the way of the great auk, the news of threatened extinction has slowly changed to news of survival. Some...
...under bits and scatters them among dozens of committees. Against all odds, the nonprofit Citizens' Research Foundation, headed by Herbert E. Alexander, a political scientist, attempts an accounting each election year, based on voluntary disclosures made by candidates and statements filed. Such a system cannot ferret out those determined to conceal their gifts, but it does at least give an indication of what the honest men are up to. Herewith a necessarily incomplete gallery of top donors in this campaign through Aug. 31, prepared by TIME from the C.R.F.'s data...
...there been such a dramatic move to fight crime in New York City. Acting on the recommendation of the Knapp Commission, which had spent a year and a half investigating corruption in the city police department, Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced the creation of a superprosecutor to ferret out misdeeds in all areas of the criminal justice system, including the police, judges, probation officers, bail bondsmen and prison authorities. Said Rocky: "It is absolutely unique...