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...Istanbul, a 14-year-old English tourist, Timothy Davey, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison on charges of conspiring to sell more than 50 Ibs. of hashish. As a public uproar erupted in Britain, the Turkish embassy in London vainly noted that the schoolboy could have received a much more severe sentence. The outraged British found the Turkish court's heavy-handed treatment of the boy difficult to understand. For centuries, Turkish farmers have grown fields of poppies that have become a prime source of the heroin sold in the U.S. Only last June...
...released a complete list of all his campaign contributors and how much they have so far anted up. Unprecedented in the history of presidential politics, the gigantic printout contained 42,102 names, from Max Palevsky, Chairman of the Xerox Executive Committee, who tossed $25,000 into the pot, to Schoolboy John Poluchek of Los Angeles, who began with a contribution of 25? and has since added three installments, totaling...
Pottetti starred on the cross-country team both in high school and at Harvard. He won the 3000 meter steeplechase in the Penn relays. While in high school he won the National Schoolboy Championship and held the state high school record in the two-mile...
Harvard will have a much tougher time with the National team. Although last year's Harvard All-American. Joe Cavanagh, is out with a broken wrist, the Nationals have sufficient scoring punch in former Boston College stars Tim Sheehy. Kevin Ahearn and Norwood's schoolboy wonder, Robbie Ftorek. The Nationals, who have been playing together since last September, tied B.U., 4-4, and can play on a par with the best College teams...
...step to another sad preoccupation. "Successful suicide," Greene writes, "is often a cry for help that has not been heard in time." With some slight prurience, he describes his schoolboy attempts to cut a vein in his leg, swallow deadly nightshade berries, handfuls of aspirin and, finally, a draft of darkroom hypo-all with no serious results. But when he ran away from school at age 16, his father sent him down to London in 1920 to be psychoanalyzed. The six-month period of analysis, Greene revealingly admits, was the most peacefully pleasant time of his life, along with...