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...thoughts of a university president these days are no longer limited to such lofty matters as improving the curriculum or such necessary deeds as raising funds. Not with students and drugs to worry about. Last week President John Toll of S.U.N.Y.'s Stony Brook campus ruefully told a joint New York legislative committee on crime that "I've probably talked more about this than any other single topic since I've been president...
...grim statistics of highway travel in the world's most motorized society add up to an irresistible sales pitch for auto insurance. Cars have killed more Americans since 1900 than the death toll of all U.S. wars since 1775. Roughly 24 million cars crashed in 1966 alone, injuring 4,000,000 people, disabling 1,900,000 and killing...
...trying to race the tremors in his tiny Fiat. The town's doctor died on his way to save his mother. The earthquake was by far Italy's worst since 75,000 people were killed at the other end of tremor-prone Sicily 60 years ago. The toll: as many as 500 people dead, more than 1,000 injured and 80,000 left homeless over a 600-square-mile carpet of destruction in one of the Mezzogiorno's most backward regions...
...second charge against the war is that the toll in human bloodshed, especially among civilians, has now become morally intolerable, even though many of the civilians are victims of Viet Cong terrorism, and many others are deliberately pushed into the line...
...half of the students have taken marijuana at one time or another. The school has distributed medical articles about drug dangers to all students, installed anti-pot posters in campus buildings, set up an advisory committee to deal with the problem. In the wake of the arrests, President John Toll announced that he had hired a full-time consultant on drugs, Lutheran Minister Dean A. Hepper, who in turn said that he would employ a former addict to help him work with students. The arrested stu dents, most of whom have pleaded not guilty, face the double jeopardy of both...