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Robert Hines, city prosecutor for Ithaca, N.Y. and Joseph Jock, district attorney of Tompkins County, are investigating the damage done to the admissions office during the student sit-in in order to determine whether enough evidence exists to bring charges against individual students...
Messersmith is a tough, hustling player and easygoing beach lover who looks a bit like Ryan O'Neal. He was a jock at the University of California in 1964 at the time of the Free Speech Movement there, and he searched out Mario Savio and had a talk with him "to see what the guy had to say." Now Savio is a schoolteacher and Messersmith is the revolutionary who broke the back of baseball's reserve clause...
...other end of the suite, however, was a glade of softer music, yellow light, and marijuana smoke. Here you could glimpse such improbable pairings as the managing editor of the Harvard Crimson and a young turk from the Porcellian Club or a poorly-sculpted Eliot House jock and a cloistered aesthete from Adams House, both couples engaged in conversation over cigarettes. In this rarefied atmosphere stone figures talked lethargically on the couch, while others on the floor sucked earnestly at joints. Whenever I wandered in here, stripped to a tee shirt and sweating--anomalous among the taxidermic figures of this...
...financial manipulation." In the 1972 election, reform candidate Arnold Miller easily swamped incumbent W.A. (Tony) Boyle by 14,000 votes. Boyle was subsequently convicted of embezzling union money, illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 Humphrey presidential campaign, but most seriously, of ordering the murders of Margaret, Charlotte and Jock Yablonski, Boyle's nine-year reign was over...
...WHEN Tony Boyle took over the UMWA's presidency, the union and the operators were quite cozy with each other, and Boyle was determined to keep it that way. Jock Yablonski was an International Executive Board member from the UMWA's District 5 in southwest Pennsylvania. At one time, he hoped to succeed Boyle as president of the union, but their relationship steadily worsened. Boyle accused Yablonski of not helping his 1964 campaign for re-election to the presidency, although Boyle took District 5 by a four-to-one margin. He charged Yablonski with insubordination because Yablonski had fought...