Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman's bill, the Percy proposal received unwontedly enthusiastic backing from the Senate's 36 Republicans-and mild praise from Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the House, Cosponsor William Widnall of New Jersey could count on at least 100 votes. The bill also drew a scathing assault from HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, who blasted it as "totally unsupported by any factual analyses as to the kind and amount of subsidy that would be required for workable home ownership by poor families." Weaver's nine-page critique seemed to reflect a possessiveness about the urban problems that...
Tiger Jack Endricat in the half mile is perhaps Princeton's top man. Heptagonal and New Jersey half-mile champion last year. Endricat could get a stiff race from Harvard's Trey Burns and Tom Callahan. Burns is regaining the form which made him Heptagonal 1000 champion as a sophomore and ought to perform well once he shakes an achilles injury and gets some warm weather...
...Mario Andretti came to the U.S. in 1955 and settled in Nazareth, Pa. He originally intended to be a welder, gave up that idea when he discovered that he could make more money racing stock cars and midgets on the dirt tracks of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Today, Andretti is the hottest racing driver in the world...
...then another month for a rescheduled sentencing date. But Kayo, apparently, was still talking. According to police and criminal grapevines, he is one of the most important sources of Mafia information now in captivity, and it was he who gave away the location of a gangland graveyard in New Jersey where FBI agents last month found the bodies of two gangland rub-out victims. Last week, Judge Gellinoff finally sentenced him, not to 174 years but to 30 to 44. He still faces trial on twelve counts of contempt of court as a result of his trial performance...
...largest number, 107, come from the middle Atlantic states -- New York, New Jersey, and Penn. Ninety-four are from New England, 56 from the South; 44 from the mid-west; and 40 from the far west...