Word: jersey
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Democratic presidential nomination. Ringing up the most votes ever cast for a Democrat in New Jersey, he carried 14 of the state's 21 counties (including normally Republican Essex and Union), smashed Republican hopes by running close on Forbes's heels in the other seven. He corralled the Negro vote, even though Forbes had told Negroes that they should vote Republican in return for the President's action at Little Rock. Meyner spread coattails broad enough to carry back to Trenton with him an additional Democratic state senator and 22 new assemblymen, making the assembly Democratic...
...from Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy. Meyner billboards did not even worry about the word Democrat. In short, Bob Meyner did it on his record, his personality and a well-oiled, new-model state machine. Said he modestly: "Whatever outside political influence the New Jersey verdict may be deemed to have, I leave to others...
Announcing last week for the Senate seat held by aging (77) New Jersey Republican H. Alexander Smith: redhaired, boutonniered Bernard Michael Shanley, 54, who resigned as President Eisenhower's Appointments Secretary to go home and run. Shanley's plan infuriated New Jersey Republicans, who knew that Alex Smith was anxious to retire after 2½ terms, hoped to select his successor without a bloodletting primary. Irritating them also was Shanley's lightweight claim to political fame. In four years at the White House, the onetime Stassen-for-President strategist has tried to influence patronage, has riled Smith...
...rival companies talk confidently of the power of the hidden sell. Subliminal Projections for six weeks flashed the words "Eat Popcorn," and "Drink Coca-Cola" on the screen of a New Jersey movie theater during the regular show. Obediently, customers trooped to the lobby, boosted sales of popcorn by 57.7% and Coke by 18.1%. Going from the subliminal to the ridiculous, Experimental Films says that their technique can also "enhance sensory projections and dramatic values" to make TV entertainment seem better than it really...
...controversial colt, Gallant Man, who lost the Derby by a dirty nose. Between them they had already earned nearly $1,500,000; now they were after a piddling $82,350. But the money didn't matter. The winner of last week's race at New Jersey's Garden State track would be America's Horse of the Year...