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...payola hearings. Standing on the burning deck with aplomb, he assured the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he believed in his heart that he had never taken payola. "But you got an awful lot of royola," snapped Republican Steven B. Derounian, of New York's Nassau County, who was the clear winner of the session's Most Valuable Phrasemaker trophy...
Harry E. Hanners, 40, is a onetime Manhattan adman who suffered a spinal disease for five years. A painkilling drug led to his addiction and a six-month sentence in Long Island's Nassau County Jail...
Some of the biggest U.S. banks have been cooped up within the confines of New York City, forbidden by state law to set up branches or holding companies to buy banks in the fast-growing suburbs of Westchester and Nassau counties. Efforts of Manhattan bankers to change the law have always been blocked by a coalition of small-town Republicans and solid Democratic opposition in the state legislature. Among the caged banking Goliaths: the Chase Manhattan (assets: $8.5 billion), whose vice chairman is David Rockefeller, brother of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
Rockefeller's bill will not easily overcome various pressures in the legislature. Democrats are using his stand as a weapon in a forthcoming Nassau County election. Other opposition has come mainly from counties who have thought themselves able to finance education without raising local taxes, who have turned down bond issues repeatedly. Significantly, however, opposition to educational spending has reversed its field. Where once "federal" control was the bugaboo, in New York it seems that "local" control is the danger. Fortunately, this is a difficult point to prove...
...millionaire" or even "rich" (nonetheless, he is wealthy). Since Jane is off Broadway, the playhouse's 175 seats were his for only $300. One extra: Perky, whose father was Princeton 1881, slipped Actor Monroe Arnold a ten-spot to change the target of a snide remark from Old Nassau to Yale...