Word: jersey
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PATERSON, NEW JERSEY is a place that inspires people. It inspired poets Allan Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, it inspired Angelo Bresci, the anarchist who killed King Humbert I of Italy before World War I, and to the city's lasting pride, it inspired "Leaping" Sam Patch, the only man to leap Niagara Falls without a protective device...
Paterson is a middle-sized city (150,000 pop.), described in the '30s WPA New Jersey State Guide as "one of the few cities in America that came out almost exactly as it was planned." It was founded in 1972 as an industrial community, a site for the factories of the Society for Useful Manufacturers (SUM), one of Alexander Hamilton's corporate schemes to industrialize the newly united colonies. The settlement quickly became a colony of the industrialists who ran SUM--men like Samuel Colt, who produced his first revolvers in Paterson. It was not until 1831 that the town...
...press from their formal extravaganza Saturday night. But the earthier crowd at Cottage seemed for the most part thrilled by the presence of a reporter in their midst--although the Times photographer was forcibly prevented from shooting the roulette tables, where the son of the governor of New Jersey was blithely gambling away in defiance of state...
...brightest light on the New Jersey squad is goalkeeper Sergio Zeballos. The Passaic sophomore is getting a lot of practice in the nets as he was forced to make 15 saves against the Bruins...
...that the two squads are playing other Ivy opponents this weekend. And next week's battle might not loom so large if the undefeated Bruins are surprised by Cornell today or the Crimson squad, undefeated in Ivy play, is ambushed by Princeton this morning at 10:30 in New Jersey...