Word: jersey
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...overall policy for a test is always determined by the professional group or government agency for whom the test is to be made. But the actual spelling out of the questions usually takes place at the ETS's five story administration-laboratory building in Princeton, New Jersey. If it is an aptitude measure, ETS test specialists, most of them outstanding students just out of college, develop the questions...
...Senators, still unnerved by Secretary Dulles' grave warnings about Indo-China (see above), were in no mood to applaud-even though Stassen promised that there would be no relaxation of tight controls on trade with North Korea or Communist China. New Jersey's usually sunny H. Alexander Smith scowled darkly when Stassen admitted that the list of nonstrategic goods for Russia included "simple types of machine tools." Snapped Senator Smith: "It seems to me that we are strengthening their war potential." With an increased supply of civilian goods from the West, he said, the Soviets "can now concentrate...
...approving audience of Y.M.C.A. members heard New Jersey's handsome bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 46, trace the problem of juvenile delinquency down to some unattractive roots. "The modern ideal of feminine perfection," said Democrat Meyner, "seems to be a punk actress with platinum hair and an overstuffed bosom. The ideal of manhood is a character who toots a horn and smokes marijuana." The governor's battle cry: "What we need are fewer Aly Khans and [Porfirio] Rubirosas and more Daniel Boones and Horatio Algers...
Died. Joseph Patrick Tumulty, 74, shrewd Jersey City ward politician who rose to be the longtime (1911-21) secretary to Woodrow Wilson; in Olney, Md. After unsuccessfully opposing Wilson's bid for the New Jersey governorship in 1910, Tumulty joined Wilson's camp, became his closest political adviser. As a highly effective political balance to his scholarly chief, gregarious Joe Tumulty reveled in political dogfights, handled White House patronage, but was never noted for his verbal discretion. In 1919, when Wilson was stricken by cerebral thrombosis, Tumulty suggested that he be declared incapable of holding office and allow...
These companies would presumably be Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum, Texas Company, Gulf, and Shell. Spokesmen for Shell and Standard of New Jersey have declined to comment on their interest in the new center...