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Boston University professor Howard Zinn begins a 61/2 day sentence at Suffolk County Jail Friday for refusing to pay a $20 fine...
Like most rural areas, Long Island's Suffolk County has no major sewer system and, except in the largest towns, cannot afford to build one in the near future. Because Suffolk's 1,200,000 residents depend on backyard cesspools and septic tanks, household wastes that do not break down in natureespecially detergentseventually seep into the underground water supply. As a result, more and more drinking water flows out of the tap with a smelly foam that tastes awful and perhaps affects human health...
Last week the Suffolk County legislature took a step unprecedented in the U.S. It banned the sale of virtually all detergents used to wash clothes or clean homes. The ban, which is effective March 1, will be mostly a test of housewives' restraint. Although the law imposes penalties (up to $250 and 15 days in jail) on sellers of detergents, anybody who wants them badly enough can buy them legally in adjoining Nassau County. The real problem is that the detergent industry has not yet developed substitute soaps that work as well and also break down in nature. Even...
...least three years, Cowles has been sinking deeper into financial troubles. Losses in 1968 were $888,000; in 1969, they were $1,883,000. Last year Cowles closed down its Long Island daily Suffolk Sun (a reportedly $5,000,000-per-year loser). Earlier this year, it sold the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico to the Scripps-Howard chain...
...make U.S. watchers of the late show feel nostalgic. Where else would Veronica Lake, 50, decide to spend the rest of her days with both eyes showing, serving tea to friends? Her famed, blonde "peekaboo" hair now wavy rather than flowing, thrice-married Miss Lake is settling in Suffolk. Marriage? "I don't have any special man friend-although I do enjoy an Englishman's company...