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PETER SANTULLI St. Mary's High School Manhasset...
...assembly-line steps, made their family firm, Levitt & Sons, one of the biggest U.S. home builders, slapping together 40,000 low-cost dwellings in three uniformly antiseptic developments on Long Island, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, introduced the word Levittown to the language; after a long illness; in Manhasset...
John Edwards, 17, had never before played hooky, but "on impulse" one day last week, the senior at Manhasset (N.Y.) High School slipped off with a pal to the U.N. building in Manhattan. There they got in line, bought tickets for a guided tour, and then-pow! A platoon of officials hauled the boys out of line, flashbulbs popped, and Hooky Player Edwards got jarring news: his tour ticket was the 1,000,000th sold this year...
Facing up to the publicity, John manfully discussed the U.N. with Under Secretary Andrew W. Cordier, got a private tour of the executive offices, finally crept back to Manhasset High. When the school told her about her son's "fantastic excuse" for cutting classes, John's mother called it "absolutely hilarious." But, she added sternly, no more going on the hook for John...
...recent elections, Mark H. Mullin '62, of Dunster House and Mt. Carroll, Ill., was chosen to lead next year's spring track team: H. Grady Watts, Jr. '62, of Kirkland House and Manhasset, N.Y., was picked for lacrosse; and Paul W. Sullivan '63, of Dunster House and Belmont, was selected for tennis...