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...from [Long Island's] Roosevelt Raceway, but only inches separate [them] in operating procedure." Newsday knew what it was talking about. Unheeded by other papers or by state officials, Newsday had been loudly hammering away for more than three years at corruption at the Long Island track in Nassau County. Last week Newsday's three-year-long campaign finally paid off with a blaze of Page One stories in the Manhattan dailies on one of the biggest state scandals in years. As a result, ten Roosevelt track and union officials were indicted for "extortion," and Governor Thomas...
...Levy admitted his group had lobbied a law through the New York State legislature that prevented the Yonkers track from getting a harness-racing franchise, thus forcing it to sell control at a low price (estimated at $2,000,000) to the Roosevelt group. Among the Roosevelt-Yonkers owners: Nassau County Republican Boss J. Russel Sprague (who paid only $80,000 for stock now worth $400,000), two ex-members of the district attorney's staff, and Publisher James E. Stiles, owner of the defunct Nassau Daily Review-Star, Newsday's opposition. Newsday also broke the news that...
...United States Naval Academy's football team ran all over the Princetons, 65 to 7, the largest score run up against a Nassau team in 85 years of intercollegiate football...
Princeton Dean of Admissions C. William Edwards said yesterday that the Nassau "administration and faculty are very receptive" to the part of the Blackmer Report which would give outstanding high school seniors intensive college board exams and promote them to sophomore standing if they succeed...
...Allen could well afford to spare the editorial blue pencil since most graduates tended to emphasize the similarities between Harvard and Old Nassau...