Word: roach
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Five panelist--Jackie Cooke, a graduate student in government; Jeffrey Ferguson '85 of Leverett House, Ronald Roach '85 of Quincy House, Johnson and government graduate student Sheree Queen-Bryant-presented their views of what the Black intellectual could glean from Cruse...
Wearing an exterminator's white coveralls and grasping a bug-spray canister and two yellow flyswatters, Conte announced on the steps of the Capitol that Shulton, Inc., a "roach-busting" company from his congressional district, was donating 35,000 roach traps to combat the problem. Conte, a 26-year veteran of the Hill, is something of an expert on all sorts of pests. Says he: "I've seen the beady-eyed Midwestern cockroach, the pesky little New England cockroach as well as the rodeo cockroach, usually found only west of the Mississippi...
Although not disease carriers themselves, roaches have been known to carry disease-ridden bacteria that causes diarrhea, dysentery and food poisoning. Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of Harvard food services, says then try alleviate roach-intimated disease through pest control. But Walcott adds that public concern about rather than the health hazard they pose...
...arrest on charges of drunk driving would be embarrassing for any solid citizen, but for Roman Catholic Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, the experience was downright sobering. The churchman was picked up in February when his Chevrolet brushed against the side of a store. After a blood-alcohol test administered by police showed a reading of .19%, nearly double the .10% level that Minnesota law defines as intoxication, the archbishop was invited to spend the night in the county jail. Recalled Sheriff Dave Ninnemann: "He was a model prisoner...
...After Roach pleaded guilty last week, a judge fined him $445 and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. With 28 of those days suspended, and ten hours credited for the night he spent in the Chicago jail, the cleric will be obliged to serve 38 more hours. In addition, the judge ordered Roach to enter an outpatient program for alcohol abuse. "I thank God that no one was hurt," the archbishop said after his sentencing last week. He called upon his | congregation to beware of the dangers of drinking and driving. Said he: "I take my role...