Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey Teamster boss. Ruler of the Newark docks. Feared Mafia avenger. Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 61, is all of these and more. In fact, his underworld influence is so vast that some Justice Department officials regard him as the nation's most powerful racketeer...
Last week, however, Tony Pro was convicted of murder by a jury in Kingston, N.Y., and sent to languish among the other losers in an upstate jail. Found guilty of murder with him was Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg, 56, a New Jersey loan shark and extortionist...
Clifford Case was first elected to Congress in 1944, when Democrat Bill Bradley and Republican Jeffrey Bell were babies. For 34 years the liberal New Jersey Republican defied the odds, winning election to Congress five times and to the Senate four times in a state where there are now 1.5 million Democrats and only 500,000 Republicans...
...which he did not even use television ads and spent little time away from his Senate duties-"Every poll and writer indicated that I would win handsomely," Case explains-he lost by 3,500 votes out of 233,000 to Bell, a relatively obscure conservative who moved to New Jersey two years ago specifically to run against Case...
Bell still has a second race to win, of course. In November he must face another political rookie, Basketball Star Bradley, and he will rate as the underdog in that contest. Bradley, 34, a Rhodes scholar and former star forward for the New York Knicks, moved to New Jersey four years ago and began shaking hands and squeezing arms. He used a well-financed campaign to parlay name recognition and celebrity support into a Democratic primary victory over five rivals...