Word: jersey
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...course, an accident, but the inspiration of Sey Chassler, 56, editor in chief of Redbook. After state equal rights amendments went down to defeat in New York and New Jersey last November, Chassler got on the phone and set up a meeting with the editors of Ms., McCall's, Woman's Day, Glamour and Cosmopolitan to discuss running stories on the ERA timed for the Bicentennial. The group then wrote the editors at other women's magazines asking them to join the effort. Even Chassler was impressed by the concerted response in print. Says he: "Most...
This summer Lawrence White is extending his business experience and hiking his savings as manager of a go-cart track near his family's home in Moorestown, New Jersey...
...search for delegates had been stalled, and Ford was making inroads in delegations from Hawaii to Mississippi. So the challenger made a bold reach to the left in hopes that he might pick up some of the "soft" Ford delegates in such states as Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The calculated risk was that Reagan's conservative ideologues would grumble, but finally stay with him, while moderates would drift away from Ford. By the end of a tumultuous week, it was clear that the last-gasp Reagan strategy had failed. He had managed to hang...
Regardless of what happens in Mississippi, simply holding the conservative lines would not be enough for Reagan. For the Schweiker ploy to work, it would have been necessary to win over delegates in New York, New Jersey and, notably, Pennsylvania. So far, that simply has not been happening. Schweiker insisted on Wednesday that he would pull as many as 20 Ford delegates from Pennsylvania into either the Reagan or uncommitted columns-but he did not produce a single name...
After a 90-minute audience with the President at the White House, six delegates-who had been considered uncommitted-came out publicly for Ford. Reagan and Schweiker may meet jointly with Pennsylvania and New Jersey delegations this week to try to persuade delegates to switch; they also plan to address the Mississippi delegation...