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NICHOLAS R. LANG Staten Island...
...James A. Doyle, of Ballard Vale (Biology); Jack S. Fellman, of Dorchester (Linguistics and Near East. Lang.); Douglas W. Hoffman, of Milwaukee Wis. (Government); John A. Howell, of Arlington (Physics); Michael M. Lieber, of Arlington, Va. (Bichemical Sciences); Christopher Mitchell, of New York City (Government); Stuart A. Pizer, of Staten Island, N.Y. (English); Garret D. Rosenblatt, of San Francisco, Calif. (History and Lit.); Steven E. Rubin, of Malden (Biology); and Irving S. Schloss, of Riverdale, N.Y. (History...
COLUMBELLA by Phyllis A. Whitney. 306 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Author Whitney, a Staten Island, N.Y., grandmother of 62, fashions her 38th book about Jessica Abbott, an inhibited schoolteacher who goes to the Virgin Islands in a search for adventure. There, she is hired as a tutor and companion for 14-year-old Leila Drew, promptly falls in love with the child's father, Kingdon, and earns the undying hatred of the mother, Catherine. Somebody has to die, and so Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After...
...look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities of fecal bacteria, closing out the light and consuming oxygen required by fish and other forms of marine animal and plant life, before sluggishly moving seaward on the outgoing tide...
...most of them gave the story a big play. And publicity turned out to be just what Negrón needed. Hardly were the papers on the stands than he received some 50 job offers, ranging from clerk in a life insurance company to a crewman on the Staten Island ferry. He settled for a temporary job as assistant circulation manager for the Spanish-language daily El Tiempo; but as a onetime seaman, he is considering returning to sea, where he can escape neighborhood mob scenes. Meanwhile, his fair-weather neighbors have suffered a change of heart. Once again, they...