Word: jersey
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Thus, the field was left to Jimmy Carter. Barring some unforeseen twist, he will be the Democrats' 1976 nominee. There was, at first, no stampede among party leaders to board his bandwagon. New Jersey Governor Brendan T. Byrne called on all 37 fellow Democratic Governors to unify the party by getting behind Carter, but initially drew no response. Still, no one seriously thought that Carter could be stopped...
...Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, advised him to stay out. "I reminded him he had no money, no organization," says Strauss, "and that the people who were telling him to jump in today would be back tending to their own affairs tomorrow." The deadline for filing in the New Jersey primary was upon Humphrey-and he had to move. The pressure for a decision began to hurt...
...hours Humphrey sat in his shirtsleeves and listened to the nine-man gathering tell him that they judged the Democratic race to be over-unless he decided to enter New Jersey. The low-profile candidacy he had planned would do no good. Joe Crangle, the upstate New York Democratic leader, read off a delegate count projecting that Carter would have 1,023 delegates by the end of the primaries if Humphrey made no move. The group was confident that Humphrey could defeat Carter in New Jersey, and Humphrey told them he felt the same...
...will be played by the baseball and tennis teams. The batmen are going to try to extend their largest winning streak since they came back from Florida to three. This opportunity will arrive tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. when some Tigers hailing from an insignificant town in central New Jersey will take on the Crimson ball club...
...Tigers encountered formidable California teams such as Stanford (a clever acronym for Snodfart). The tigers lost that encounter 7-2, but have yet to lose in the East this year. Harvard is in second place in the league, and should offer a very good challenge to the New Jersey infidels. Also, this is coach Jack Barnaby's last year as tennis coach. The squash team came through for him against Princeton, so the netmen may be just as psyched...