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...Joel Sharkey, NSA's national affairs vice-president, was critical of the actions by the two schools. "If they are unhappy with present policies of NSA, they are certainly not going to accomplish anything by withdrawing," he said. "If the more conservative schools choose to disaffiliate because of disagreement on political issues, the result of their action can only be the further liberalization of NSA policies...
...withdrawal of the two "prestige" colleges was not a serious blow to the prestige of NSA, Sharkey said. "Dis-affiliations are common in the Fall, when each school is faced with the NSA membership dues...
...response to a tip and covered the latest Buddhist suicide by fire. While the press corps tried to comply with the crowd's pleas-"Take pictures! Tell Mr. Kennedy!"-plainclothesmen moved in to confiscate their cameras. As they tried to protect their equipment, Grant Wolfkill and John Sharkey of NBC and David Halberstam of the New York Times were beaten; all three required hospitalization. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge made a prompt protest to the Vietnamese government...
...delegation to Jack. At the 1960 convention, New York cast 104½ votes for Kennedy, and after the election Buckley continued to be helpful. Confided Kennedy last year: "When I want something in New York, I know where to go. I go to Charlie Buckley, Gene Keogh or Joe Sharkey,* and I get it." Such loyalty is a quality Kennedy, too, can appreciate-and reciprocate. And Buckley came to have need of Kennedy's help. Last year Mayor Wagner, whom Buckley helped get elected mayor initially in 1953, fell out with New York's borough bosses, including Buckley...
...Sharkey, who had bossed the Brooklyn organization, was dislodged by Wagner. Keogh is a Brooklyn Congressman whose name has been frequently mentioned by witnesses in the current bribery trial of his brother, J. Vincent Keogh, a New York Supreme Court judge...