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...leading to the end of their island. The nearest mainland classes, where island teen-agers already go, are a 90-minute ferry ride to Portland. "We couldn't put our young ones on the 6:15 morning ferry and ask them to make that trip," says Lobsterman Jim Seymour, father of two grade school kids...
Killina Blow. Cliff Island could not afford to lose Seymour, or Ben O'Reilly Jr., who plows the heavy winter snows, or Bunk MacVane, Bub Anderson and Bruce Dyer, lobstermen all. Four hundred winter people lived on the island 70 years ago, but residents have been moving to the mainland and its more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become...
ADAM RESURRECTED by Yoram Kaniuk, translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes. 370 pages. Atheneum...
Whatever the specific strengths and weaknesses of the Pentagon history, its impact was clearly most damaging to Democrats, but the Nixon Administration's attempts to suppress the report made many Americans wonder about its motives. U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour conceded that "what the Government has done in this case is a terribly unpopular thing. We are villified on all sides." The impending prosecution of Ellsberg is certain to bring more abuse, as well as some praise, to the Administration...
Ominous Specter. Despite the President's disclaimer, the problem has been greatly accelerated by the war. Officially, the estimates are that between 26,000 and 39,000 G.I.s use hard drugs. New York Congressman Seymour Halpern, just back from Viet Nam, puts that figure as high as 60,000, most of them on heroin. There are an estimated 250,000 addicts in the U.S. Some authorities believe that if 75% of them supported their habit by committing crimes the cost to the country would exceed $8 billion yearly. With the return of the addicted veterans, the cost of heroin...