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...tide of war had begun to turn at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, when Britain's grand plan to take the Hudson River Valley and thus split the colonies came abruptly to grief. General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British and Hessian troops, came south from Canada almost unopposed. But General Howe, who was to go north to meet him, sailed away to take Philadelphia instead. An American army under General Horatio Gates blocked Burgoyne on high ground on the west bank of the river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared...
...John V. Kenny beat the corrupt Hague machine in Jersey City. His best was good enough; Kenny displaced Hague's nephew as mayor of Jersey City and Hague as boss of Hudson County. In return, said Dickerson, Kenny's Democratic machine slammed on the brakes during the autumn gubernatorial campaign; Jersey City and surrounding Hudson County, which normally returns a Democratic majority of from 75,000 to 100,000, produced an edge of only 3,400 votes for Driscoll's Democratic opponent. Had city and county voted as usual, Driscoll would have been defeated...
...Paul L. Troast-chairman of the commission which built the famed Jersey Turnpike-got the G.O.P. nomination by only a comparatively small majority in last fortnight's gubernatorial primary. Troast was opposed by a large, impressive protest vote which may swing over to his Democratic rival in the autumn. But was corruption the burning issue in corruption-scarred New Jersey during the primary campaign? Indeed not. The burning issue was bingo-which was banned because of a supreme court decision, and despite vast public outrage, two months ago. To stand the ghost of a chance in the fall, both...
...warning comes true one late autumn day, when a pathological killer gets loose in Middenshot. With balmy cunning, Herbert lures him and a Middenshot rapist to the coal shed on the pretext of helping them evade the police, and shoots a hypodermic of hydrocyanic acid into each. Before anyone has a chance to discover Herbert's private executions, he and a pair of philosophical detectives have more than enough time to labor Author Mittelholzer's pet thesis, i.e., criminals are born, not made. His further contention: eugenics experts should be given the job of blotting out young Hitlers...
...after day, in liaison meetings at Panmunjom, the Reds pressed for a full-scale resumption of the armistice talks, broken off by the U.N. last autumn. Said one U.N. officer: "I've never seen the Communists so eager." The U.N. bided its time while Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo checked strategy with Washington. Finally Lieut. General William K. Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate and weary veteran of past Communist filibusters, sent a letter to North Korea's Nam Il, agreeing once more to talk truce...