Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When these interviews were finished, they were taken to Camp Kilmer, a large former army barracks in New Jersey that had been outfitted to provide the most pleasant interlude possible before the Hungarians were settled in their new homes. Kilmer was a great improvement over the Austrian camps, both because of its better facilities and because the refugees there knew that it would be only a matter of days before they would be permanently settled...
...complicate matters, New Jersey has had a Republican-controlled legislature under a Democratic governor for the past four years, thus allowing each side to claim credit for the "good" things done, while blaming the opposition...
...second major issue in the campaign has been state expenditure and taxes. Forbes has attacked Meyner as the "spendingest" governor in New Jersey history (his budgets have totalled $292 million more than those of his predecessor, Republican Alfred E. Driscoll). Actually, the issue is not at all clear-cut, for Forbes has also said that he would not reduce the budget, but would simply redirect it into different, and supposedly more fruitful, channels...
Meyner has tried to campaign solely on local issues, probably in an effort to avoid bringing the highly-popular President Eisenhower into the state. But Forbes has relied greatly on Ike's popularity in traditionally Republican New Jersey. He has told Negro audiences that a vote for Republican candidates is "the only way you can tell the President he did right" in Little Rock. And a long train of Republican national figures, from Vice-President Nixon and three cabinet members down to a group of campaign strategists, has entered the state on Forbes's behalf. If Forbes wins, and most...
...students at Harvard is that these students are better prepared than graduates of this nation's public school system. Except for a few exceptional public schools, the better private schools produce students that can run academic circles around the "diamond in the rough" from a small town in New Jersey. It is true that in the first year at Harvard the prep school graduate does better work with less effort than someone from a public school. After the first year, however, the public school student usually does more work and gets the better grades...