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From either end of a long table in the auditorium of New Jersey's Seton Hall University, the two men sat glowering at each other. "It's an abuse of academic freedom to make such irresponsible, seditious statements," cried State Senator Wayne Dumont Jr., the Republican candidate for Governor Rejoined Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes: "There are federal statutes against treason and sedition a complex of laws and courts, and 'an FBI to protect the nation." Then, when the debate was over, the protagonists stalked off separately without so much as a word or a handshake...
What had treason, sedition and academic freedom to do with New Jersey's gubernatorial race? Everything. Until July, Candidate Dumont, 51, a state-tax expert and attorney, and Incumbent Hughes, 56, an affable, undistinguished administrator who is seeking a second four-year term, had almost nothing to argue about. Both agreed that New Jersey's most pressing problem, a chronic shortage of revenue, could be solved only by new taxes. (New Jersey and Nebraska are the only two states in the Union that do not levy statewide taxes on income or retail sales.) Nor did the candidates electrify...
...Jersey Dreyfus. Then, suddenly Dumont raised the issue of Eugene Genovese, 35, an American-history professor at Rutgers, New Jersey's state university. A short time before, Genovese had stood up at a campus teach-in to protest the war in Viet Nam. "I am a Marxist and a socialist," he declared. "Therefore, I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory in Viet Nam. I welcome...
With that, the campaign caught fire. Dumont demanded that Genovese be dismissed or suspended, called on Hughes to join him in the ouster call. Hughes refused, siding loftily with Voltaire rather than Genovese, and forthwith nailed academic freedom into his platform. At Hughes's request, Rutgers' board of governors conducted an investigation, found that Genovese had done nothing to incur dismissal, and upheld his right to free speech. Nevertheless, the Genovese case turned into the Jersey equivalent of the Dreyfus affair...
Died. Margaret Dumont, 75, stately foil for Marx Brothers shenanigans in the 1930s and early '40s, who in seven films (Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races) played the society dowager to Groucho's knave with hardly a quiver of her lorgnette, while he pranced, pinched and leered; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...