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Vicious took the drug at a Greenwich Village party celebrating his release from jail earlier this week, police spokesmen added...
...exceptions. Parents in suburban and middle-class areas across the country have been petitioning their local school boards to institute SAT prep courses as part of the normal high school curriculum. Unlike inner-city areas, where learning itself is a problem, these students allegedly receive an excellent education. In Greenwich, Conn, a wealthy New York suburb, almost half the town's tax revenue goes to schools; indeed, realtors use the superiority of the Greenwich system as a main selling point. Yet the average SAT score at Greenwich High School continues to decline, sending parents into an uproar and administrators fumbling...
DIED. Gene Tunney, 81, former world heavyweight boxing champion who twice defeated Jack Dempsey before retiring undefeated in 1928; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn, (see SPORT...
Tunney retired undefeated, the only modern heavyweight champion besides Rocky Marciano smart enough to quit at the top, and settled into a successful business career. He lived quietly with his wife Polly Lauder and four children in Greenwich, Conn. In 1971 the fighter's son, John, became U.S. Senator from California. As time went by, Tunney came to be friends with Dempsey. The old foes were thought of together, two men joined by their past. When Tunney's death was reported, Dempsey's wife Deanna said of her ailing husband, "He is taking it very badly. You must remember Gene...
More and more Hispanic Americans are settling in places like Chicago, Boston and even Greenwich, Conn, (some 10,000 in a town of 63,000). The problems, and promise, of the Hispanic-American experience in the U.S. may be best illustrated, however, by what is happening in three other cities: metropolitan Miami, whose Cuban population (430,000) is exceeded only by Havana's; metropolitan Los Angeles, whose 1.6 million Hispanic population, which is overwhelmingly chicano, makes it the world's second largest Mexican agglomeration after Mexico City; and New York, which surpasses San Juan in Puerto Rican population (1.3 million...