Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen miles to the southwest, a Negro mob in Plainfield, N.J., surrounded a white policeman and stomped him to death. Trouble erupted in nearby Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Jersey City and Englewood. Halfway across the nation, gangs of young Negroes in Cairo, Ill., hurled fire bombs and sniped sporadically for two nights, until Illinois Governor Otto Kerner ordered in 50 National Guard troops. Six hundred guardsmen were mobilized in Minneapolis, whose Negro population is only 2%, after two nights of rock throwing and arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno...
...Paul Ylvisaker, 45, New Jersey's commissioner of community affairs, was busy last week trying to repair the damage wrought by the Newark and Plainfield riots-and ran into jeers of "Communist!" and "Nigger lover!" from some Northern rednecks when he restrained National Guardsmen from tearing apart one neighborhood in a search for arms. As a Ford Foundation director for twelve years, he distributed more than $200 million to city and state governments. Now, on the other end, he is attempting to show that states can play a vital role in uniting cities and suburbs. To take care...
...billion in interest-the wary buyer or borrower is rare. Some of the interest rates charged-and paid -in the U.S. would scandalize Shylock. A Manhattan woman bought a $300 sofa that actually cost her $624 after two years of installment payments with interest of 108%. A Jersey City man ended up paying $420 for a TV set priced at $123.88, thanks to a 229% annual interest rate. One used car entailed 283.9% in interest charges...
After eight years' work in his home laboratory, an obscure New Jersey chemist last week claimed a grand prize in cigarette research: a filter that removes two-thirds of the tar and nicotine that now drifts past conventional filters, yet does not destroy the tobacco taste. Robert L. Strickman, 56, had impressive backing for his discovery. With full fanfare, it was announced by Columbia University's president, Grayson Kirk, and Dr. H. Houston Merritt, dean of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reason: Chemist Strickman gave Columbia the rights to the filter -a gift that...
...became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings of a major dope scandal...