Word: jersey
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...less affluent cities. (Fear of racial desegregation also plays a role.) Although metropolitan unification is impossible in most areas, there is nothing to prevent the state from acting as a sort of metropolitan government, particularly since the majority of residents of states like New York, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Massachusetts live in a single metropolitan area...
...palpitations and extra heartbeats, even at rest. While wearing his ECG recorder he drove from New York to Princeton. What appeared to the cardiologists as dangerous bouts of nonrhythmic ventricular action occurred while the man was apparently unaware of them and doing 60 m.p.h. or more on the New Jersey Turnpike. He is now on digitalis, said Dr. Killip, and is "living a completely normal existence"-presumably still driving the turnpike...
Gynecologist John McLean Morris and Endocrinologist Gertrude van Wagenen told the American Fertility Society that one compound has been effective in rabbits and monkeys. It causes no harmful side effects and no malformations in the newborn even when taken during pregnancy. This compound, ORF-3858 of New Jersey's Ortho Research Foundation, has not yet been approved for human trials...
...Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve hours. Cassidy, then 25 and "regressed," received no warning and confessed during 20 hours' grilling. Because both convictions were final before Escobedo, they pose the retroactivity riddle. ¶ Ernesto Miranda, 23, an "emotionally ill" truck driver, received 25-and 30-year sentences in 1963 for robbing a woman and kidnaping...
Died. Amory L. Haskell, 72, industrialist and sportsman, who in the late 1920s introduced auto safety glass from Great Britain to the U.S. market, then at the age of 38 retired to devote himself to horse breeding and racing, most notably as founder (in 1946) and president of New Jersey's 600-acre Monmouth Park race track; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...