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...liquor lockers for members, and things tend to get lively on Saturday night. The teen-agers face what everyone agrees is a serious drug problem, though it is probably no worse than it is, say, at Mamaroneck High School in New York's Westchester County or at New Trier East High School near Chicago...
Spiro is a graduate of New Trier East in Chicago, where he won All City recognition as a safety. He decided to pass up intercollegiate freshman football because of a knee injury. "Next year I'll probably go cut-if the knee holds up." he said...
...Ludke was found dead on a friend's hunting preserve near Trier in the Eifel Mountains, a fist-sized wound in his chest, his Mauser rifle, loaded with dumdum rounds, across his legs. Accident? Ludke was an avid hunter and too experienced a rifleman. Suicide? The Trier district attorney's office thought so, but it did not rule out murder. There was nothing in Ludke's record to indicate a likelihood of treason, but the federal prosecutor's office left open the possibility that he had spied for a foreign power...
...Father, the Bigot. Despite such evidence, the discovery that their own children are smoking marijuana still leaves most parents incredulous. "Pot is like syph," says a senior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter...
...sole trier of facts in the case before him, Judge Greene said that he could not weigh the defendants' conduct without knowing the national standards by which he was to measure it. After two weeks to research the question, the prosecutor refused to answer on the ground that national standards should be determined by the judge himself, as a representative of the community...