Word: jersey
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Next week's gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey are the first statewide tests of Democratic strength since Jimmy Carter moved to Washington. That is why Jody Powell calls them "the only ball games in town." The outcome will almost certainly depend more on local personalities and issues than on voter sentiment about the President's performance, but Carter campaigned actively for the Democrats in both races, so the White House has good reason to watch the returns closely?and apprehensively. Reports from the two battlegrounds...
...Jersey: Bateman v. Byrne...
...When New Jersey Republican Raymond H. Bateman turned 50 last week, a political numerologist would have chuckled at the irony. The challenger's once commanding lead in the polls had shrunk to only a 50% chance of unseating the Democratic incumbent, Brendan Byrne...
...Congress was not as adroit as it might have been. Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan complained of the Senate: "Some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Senator Clifford Case, a New Jersey Republican who is sympathetic toward the treaty, coldly replied that such a remark was not ''helpful...
...1940s pinball machines and stellar striptease were expelled from New York City by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia -thereby giving New Yorkers two good reasons to visit New Jersey. While sex in every permutation has long since washed back across the Hudson, it was only last year that consenting New Yorkers were once again permitted to play the pins in public. Similar bans on pinball were decreed in Los Angeles and, of all places, Chicago, which is the Detroit-some, say the Mecca-of | that addictive, kinetic pastime. In those cities, as well, the pins have only in recent years returned...