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Literal and literary insularity are not easy to achieve in New York City, but Playwright Paul Zindel has done it. He has lived, written and worked as a high school chemistry teacher on the city's lightly populated borough in the bay, Staten Island. Until last week: with a Pulitzer Prize* as a letter of recommendation, and with the pride of bachelorhood as impetus, he boarded a ferry and moved to Manhattan...
...Longest: the Verrazano Narrows, completed in 1964, which stretches 4,260 ft. from Brooklyn to Staten Island...
...tried to purge myself of everything I remember of New York. I'll certainly never go back. But as hard as I try, I still have one image left. It's a view from the Staten Island ferry. Just as our boat passed in front of the Statue of Liberty, two little tugs pushed four barges over laden with trash through the iridescent, oil covered water in front of the Statue. I looked back at Manhattan and saw some awful, mysterious yellow cloud gobbling up most of the buildings in the City. It had already devoured the George Washington Bridge...
Several of the new churchmen-politicians are one-issue candidates. George McClain, 31. a maverick Methodist minister, whose liberalism on political and religious issues led to a break with his congregation, now heads Shalom House, an ecumenical group on New York's Staten Island. "The peace issue is the central core of my campaign," he says. "It is a symbol against the direction we fear the country is taking." Father Stephen Vesbit, 33. of Grand Rapids, Mich., who is scheduled to announce his candidacy next week, has the same motive in running against House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...
...challenge was launched three years ago by Frederick Walz, an elderly New York lawyer who is so reclusive that he refuses to be photographed and conducted his entire case by mail and phone calls. To become a landowner, Walz bought .0146 of a weed-choked acre on Staten Island. When the city billed him for taxes of $5.24 on the lot's $100 value, he filed a suit to prevent New York from granting tax exemptions to churches, claiming that the city was using part of his money to support them. He was a Christian, he added...