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...Horses Smell Better? Secaucus, at the heart of a vast trash-filled marsh known, euphemistically, as the Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks. Most of its small, bedraggled residential section is huddled on a hill, which rises, like a precarious reef from a mounting sea, above a tide of pigs. The citizens of Secaucus on their hill rarely sniff the full exhalation of the piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities...
...Letter Day. In Hackensack, N.J., Anthony Adamo, 32, hotly denied his wife's charges that he had mistreated her, told the judge: "I never laid a hand on my wife since I broke...
Minor Sport H--Steven Chandler, Hackensack, N. J., Ivan Chermayeff, Wellfleet; Jan E. Jertson, Fairhaven; Robert T. McConanghy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair, Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Christopher Martin, Saxton River, Vt.; Byron B. Morton, Elizabeth, N. J.; Lester Buryl Scherer, Des Moines, Iowa; John W. Smith, Omaha, Neb.; Eric T. Sollee, West Newton; Harry K. Ziel, Pittsburgh; Loyd M. Starett, Manager, Washington...
...collar for her dog-$55 the set. I. Mangin suggested an electric-driven "magic pillow," to support the back of the "tired-busy woman," the head of the "tired businessman." "Its pulsating motion reduces nervous tension," explained Magnin, and asked $89.50 for it. ¶ Ann Payson, toy manufacturer of Hackensack, N.J., announced that her firm would stop making penny banks, concentrate on toy banks that took coins of higher mintage. These days, she said, "most children do not show much appreciation for anything less than a dime." ¶ The bug shield-that plastic gadget on the snouts of innumerable cars...
...know what to think. Not until hours later did he learn that the wandering crow had lured him to the plant of the Barnabas Fireworks Co. He fell backwards off the log into the mud, fled across the creek, dropped his rifle, yanked off his shoes, dived into the Hackensack River and swam it like a beaver heading for a woodyard. As he emerged dripping, on the other side, he thought, dazedly, that he ought to call the fire department. This was unnecessary. Windows had been broken and the populace jolted for miles around; the fire departments of Pearl River...