Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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L.B.J. himself grinned and waved back to the welcoming townsfolk, the tension draining from his face as the crowds' enthusiasm washed over him. But he said nothing on arrival. He had not come to New Jersey's Gloucester County last week to mine votes but to fulfill his familiar pledge to "seek peace, any time, any place...
...have to travel very far. The place for the first U.S.-Soviet summit conference in six years was no Yalta or Geneva. Rather, as the wife of New Jersey's Governor put it, it was "Smalltown, U.S.A.," the little (pop. 11,689) college community of Glassboro, 135 miles from Washington, near the Colonial farming settlement and crossroads once known as Long A-Comin...
Rigidly controlled by an ultraconservative clique known as the "syndicate," the Young Republicans have been an embarrassment to party professionals for years. The 1963 convention degenerated into a near riot when rightists told moderates to "go back to Russia." The dominant faction in New Jersey, which not inappropriately called itself the "Rat Finks," later made headlines with its penchant for songs lampooning Jews and Negroes...
...Young Republicans were just as independent as they were at the beginning. Not only did they reject all overtures from the National Committee; they also seated a right-wing Rhode Island delegation officially disbanded by the Republican state chairman, and refused to recognize the duly elected New Jersey contingent because it was opposed by the "Rat Finks...
...third-round 66 that boosted a heat-sick and exhausted Ken Venturi toward the title in 1964. But never in 72 years has the Open seen a complete round of golf to equal the final 18 played by Jack Nicklaus on the Lower Course at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club last week. In an almost casual display of power and precision, concentration and confidence, Nicklaus ripped Baltusrol to shreds with a five-underpar 65 that gave him a four-stroke victory and a 72-hole score of 275-best in Open history...