Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rodents abounded around the University last weekend. Friday night a number of enterprising undergraduates ran a Suffolk Downs-style mouse race in their living room. And Saturday afternoon Yalies let loose several lethargic rats on the playing field, at least one of which was not retrieved...
...team also played to a tie yesterday. Its season opener against Suffolk College was called because of darkness at the end of 11 innings, with the score even...
...YORK-LONG ISLAND AREA, with its growing suburbia, has still to feel a serious recession pinch. In the metropolitan area, jobs were climbing again after a January dip until nipped by the garment strike, and upstate unemployment is edging down. In Long Island's booming Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which had been hard-hit by cutbacks in defense spending, new industry is moving in at such a rate that some 75 new plants are under construction to add more electronics, nuclear energy, plastics, clothing, to the area's economy. Peak unemployment...
...writer's back." Last week, after ten months of jumping over creditors' backs, fast-moving ex-Publisher Fox was finally arrested to face indictments charging him with nonpayment of $27,000 in wages to 93 Post staffers. After appearances before two judges and a brief sojourn in Suffolk superior court detention cell, Publisher Fox put up $5,000 bond, shelled out $1,260 of his debt, and was ordered to pay the balance by March 30 or go to jail...
Evangelist Billy Graham was unwarily inspecting his flock of three sheep near his North Carolina mountain home. A few seconds later, Farmer Graham picked himself up, cut and bruised, some fifty feet down the mountainside. The winner: a surly Suffolk ram, scoring three hits, no errors. Said Billy, from his bed of pain: "I turned the other cheek...