Word: jersey
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Dutifully, Airman Norstad presented his case to Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, 90, chairman of the once-great committee, and to New Jersey Republican H. Alexander Smith, 78. Norstad had hoped that his prepared statement would draw some penetrating questions about the job military aid does in building NATO and protecting Western Europe. Instead, weary old Alex Smith asked him what "SACLANT" meant. Norstad patiently explained that it meant, as it had for six years, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. When Smith started to ask other questions, Green cut him off: "It is undesirable to have...
...shocked members of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, none was more constantly, quiveringly shocked by the merest thought of outside pressure on the Federal Communications Commission than New Jersey's Republican Representative Charles A. Wolverton, 77, veteran of nearly 32 years of House service. "It will be a sorry day in America," cried he, as evidence piled up that applicants for Miami's disputed TV Channel 10 had enlisted Senators to bring pressure on the FCC, "if the feeling of reverence for courts does not exist, and I think it's a sorry day when...
Twenty inches piled up in the Washington metropolitan area, as much as 40 inches in Pennsylvania, 20 inches in New York City suburbs, 35 inches in northern New Jersey. And wherever it fell, it brought fresh hardship to the land. Absenteeism dogged the factories. Ohrbach's department store in Manhattan looked like a morgue; other New York City stores reported 25% and 33% losses in business. "It definitely hurt unemployment," said a Labor Department expert. "It slowed up construction and farming." Wrote Washington Pundit David Lawrence: "People just don't go downtown shopping or begin to look...
...yearning for spring, the storm was of the crudest kind. Electrical failures shut off the power in more than 1,500,000 homes and institutions. More than a dozen people in Maryland were poisoned by carbon monoxide when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
...Jersey's Republican SENATOR H. ALEXANDER SMITH...