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...subcommittee of the Education Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, headed by Rep. Joseph M. Kearney (D-14th Suffolk Dist.), passed a resolution to investigate the activities of instructors at UMass who allegedly "overtly encouraged" students to resist the draft...
...clock one morning last week, 200 Suffolk County police quietly drove up to the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. Entering the dormitories, they pulled out 21 students-as well as eleven nonstudents found on the premises-and arrested them on charges of selling or possessing drugs. Later, eleven more youths were picked up off campus, bringing the arrest total to 43-thus making it the nation's largest campus crackdown so far on drug users...
...months as parliamentary liaison man with various wartime ministries. He had survived the boredom of the phony war and a bomb in the Carlton Club that might have wiped out the Conservative Party. He dealt with such power brokers as Lord Beaverbrook and such heroes as the Earl of Suffolk (a descendant of Sir Philip Sidney), who appeared in Macmillan's office as an unshaven civilian desperado, having just performed the highly uncivil service of hijacking a cargo of industrial diamonds, French scientists, Norwegian heavy water, and American machine tools from under the German guns...
Sleazy Money. The Suffolk County water authority, Newsday reported, had prohibited industrial development of vacant land in central Islip for fear that waste products would pollute the water supply. But when Water Authority Member (and Islip Republican Party Leader) Edward McGowan's firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought...
...longer you stay up destroying other aircraft in time of battle," mused Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, 48, "the luckier you've got to be." By that measure, the retiring commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at New York's Suffolk County Air Force Base is the luckiest man in the air. Though it has been 15 years since his last combat mission, the Colonel is still the nation's top-ranked living combat ace, with 371 kills to his credit from World War II and Korea. Gabreski is leaving the Air Force...