Word: brooks
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...found the aims of Communism and the U.S. "irreconcilable." Calm and courtly, Harriman became a bridge expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...
...campuses across the nation. At Princeton, more than 500 students demonstrated in support of such demands as turning trustee powers over to faculty and students, got President Robert F. Goheen, 48, to promise "a fresh and searching review of the decision-making process of the university." At the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York, 50 students staged a 17-hour sit-in at the school's business office to express sympathy with the Columbia protesters and to assail the invasion of the campus by police in a drug raid last winter...
Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...
...Stony Brook...
...Stony Brook, Long Island, campus of the State University, 22 students seized control of the business office, demanding that Suffolk County police be removed from their campus. Suffolk police arrested 33 Stony Brook students last January in a drug raid...