Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band has been forced to curtail considerably its planned Southern tour because of financial reasons. The 55-man group will play only at the Harvard Club of New Jersey, in Newark, Monday night, March 30, and at the Washington, D.C., Club the following night...
...budget increase suggested by outgoing Joe Foss. Contrariwise, Kansas Democrat George Docking has been the only Governor to compile a budget lower than last year's. And New York's big-budget Republican Rockefeller (see New York) is sandwiched between Democratic Liberals Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, both with modest proposals and no tax increases...
...hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility toward the Algerian people...
Matter of Contacts. Before he left Harvard Law, Cushing married blonde, blue-eyed Justine Cutting, socialite daughter of Dr. Fulton Cutting of New York, professor of physics at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. His closest friend (and fellow Porcellian), Alexander McFadden, had married Justine's older sister. All through his life Alec Cushing has known important people, and casually made the most of his contacts. Desultorily looking for a job. Cushing ran into his old Groton classmate, Stewart Alsop, through him got an interview with Justice Department Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, who promptly hired...
...local amateur harpists; the diplomatic corps dinners, which featured the boys' choir of Washington's Landon School; and the season's final musicale last week, when Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn was honored by the appearance of Rudy Hansen, a cowboy guitarist from New Jersey. Just about the only real pro (who appeared at a dinner honoring Vice President Nixon) was Lawrence Welk. Sneered Coe: "If I were a world figure, I certainly wouldn't want to listen to that kind of thing...