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...Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 43, long an activist in civil rights and antiwar causes; Brooklyn-born Novelist-Polemicist Mitchell Goodman, 44, who broke up last year's National Book Awards ceremony by shouting "We are burning children in Viet Nam"; former White House Disarmament Aide Marcus Raskin, 33, who now serves as co-director of a Washington research organization; and Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student and peace preacher. Of young Ferber's inclusion in the indictment with the better-known older men, one Boston "resistance" member exulted: "This amounts to diplomatic recognition...
...moratorium on the ban declared by NCAA president Marcus Plante a year ago to allow Ivy athletes to participate in winter and spring competition ended in September. As a result, Ivy teams which qualified for NCAA competition last fall (the Brown soccer team was one) were not allowed to play...
...others indicted are Mitchell Goodman '45, a New York author, and Marcus Raskin, co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies, a private research organization in Washington...
Also named were a pair of law partners who had been associated with Marcus in various business deals and a bakery-union official convicted during World War II of ration-stamp violations. Then there was Henry Fried, 68, a onetime (1955-57) member of the New York State commission of correction and currently president of S. T. Grand, Inc., the construction firm that was given the Jerome Park job by Marcus-without competitive bidding...
...exact scenario of the scandal is not yet clear, even in the federal indictment. Investigators say that Marcus was deeply in debt to Loan Shark Corallo. Between January and November 1966, Marcus and Attorney Herbert Itkin, 41, a close friend and business associate, conferred a number of times with Tony Ducks and Bakery Union Official Daniel J. Motto, 57, who has close connections with politicians and the Mafia. These two men apparently advised Marcus to award the "emergency" reservoir-cleaning contract to S. T. Grand, and both served as negotiators with Grand. The kickback-5% of the total contract...