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...However, other things being equal, the balance of G.O.P. power in New Jersey is held not by nationally prominent Republicans but by county and district professionals. They have little love for Mitchell, claiming that he gave them no patronage during his seven-year Cabinet stint; and their candidate is Bergen County's Walter H. Jones, majority leader of the state senate and legal counsel for the Bergen County Sewer Authority, an agency that was set up by legislation he had sponsored...
...like poets (Keats: "It is astonishing how they raven down scenery like children do sweetmeats"), playwrights (Shakespeare's Juliet: "No man like he doth grieve my heart") and grammarians (Bergen and Cornelia Evans: A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage) should...
...years the premier arena for prizefights and political rallies, ice shows and sawdust revivals, Manhattan's Madison Square Garden will soon sport a new look in a new location. Admiral John J. Bergen, chairman of the Graham-Paige Corp., the holding company that owns the Garden, last week announced plans to build a mammoth, three-block, $38 million new sports and entertainment center to replace it, on the west side of Manhattan at a site yet to be chosen. To be privately financed, the new Garden (which will retain the old name) hopefully will be ready...
...America with Ed Sullivan (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan in Chicago with Charlton Heston, Benny Goodman, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Newhart, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dolores Gray-all of whom are to some degree connected with Chicago...
...campaign draws to a close, the New Jersey situation is very similar to that in most parts of the country. The general impression is that if Kennedy can roll up large majorities in Hudson and Mercer, cut down on Republican strength in Bergen and Essex, and hold his own in the less populous southern areas, he will win. If, however, most of the voters who went for Eisenhower the last two times decide not to switch, it will be Nixon. In any case, the vote will be close, with the margin of victory under 60,000 according to most estimates