Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on Newark, you state that after the riot last July, "New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs Paul Ylvisaker began encouraging black militants to mobilize a legal challenge against the school" [March 29]. The statement is incorrect. My own role was simply to encourage direct talks between government officials and citizens of the Newark community. It's an old American tradition, and when tried, it seems to work...
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Among the sexiest of the new bare fashions are the clinging mat-jersey creations of Nan Herzlinger, 36, who has been designing on Seventh Avenue for just three years. Whether it be a purple-bloomer at-home costume or a short white cocktail dress, she slashes the neck well below the bustline and the back even lower, laces the precarious bodice together by wrapping it with 13 feet of jersey string. The seductive effect is straight out of a seraglio...
Objections to the law had been raised by attorneys for Charles ("Batman") Jackson and two henchmen who were accused of a 1966 kidnap during which their victim, a young truck driver, was taken from Connecticut to New Jersey and tied to a tree (he suffered rope burns). The lawyers argued that since the death penalty could only be imposed by a jury, the defendants were being made to risk a harsher punishment if they chose jury trial; by pleading guilty or by asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking...
...Ironists were quick to point out that the court's decision came only a few days after the 32nd anniversary of the execution of Lindbergh Kidnaper Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Hauptmann, however, was not executed under federal law but under the New Jersey State murder law. In fact, only six kidnapers have been put to death under the U.S.'s so-called Lindbergh...