Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carlo wasn't used to such disappointments. Back home in Jersey City he had been a real hot shot, the greatest thing since canned beer. Physics, chemistry, math; Carlo's entire life had been a segies of equations in several variables, and he had never had any problems solving them. All that stood between and a life of designing fighter planes for Grumman Aircraft was a four-year stint at college. And so he came to Harvard to pick up some culture and a little polish and a pretty girlfriend. Carlo had no pretensions. But he set out to learn...
...That's all Carlo thought when he pulled up to 8 Prescott St. the first morning he came to Harvard, and he was upset. Carlo, who was from Jersey City and was in love with physics, Frankie Valli albums and Ali MacGraw, had come to Harvard because he wanted to like Ryan O'Neill in Love Story. But in Love Story all the buildings had ivy, not to mention wood panelling and fireplaces and young women like Ali MacGraw. His new "home" had none of that--hell, it didn't even have a name, only an address. It had taken...
...breaking point came in early February after Carlo had just finished acing his finals. Everyone else in the dorm, preppies and proles alike, had respected the sanctity of the Gentleman's C, so the kid from Jersey and his grade-point average were about as popular as Pharoah in the Moses household. It's not just that Carlo was a nurd. Sure, he had spent an entire summer doing medical research at some institute where they paid you per dozen rats you managed to infect with assorted communicable horrors, and said he actually enjoyed the stay at "cancer camp." (That...
Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey and New Jersey Republican Clifford Case sponsored a Senate measure urging "sympathetic consideration" for Israeli co-production of the F16. New York Republican Jacob Javits and Idaho Democrat Frank Church introduced another, restating U.S. pledges to maintain Israel's military strength. The White House, worried by the possibility of a rash of similar resolutions in behalf of other nations, hastily sought a compromise. The Humphrey-Case measure was withdrawn, the Javits-Church toned down. Carter in return stoutly declared at a White House press conference that Israel was entitled to arms because of its "special...
After re-examining the key witnesses, the convicts1 lawyers produced a white minister from New Jersey who swore that Chavis had an alibi. The Rev. Eugene Templeton, a former pastor in Wilmington, and his wife Donna both testified that they were elsewhere with Chavis at the time he was allegedly fire-bombing the grocery. The couple left the area a short time later and did not testify at the original trial because, they claimed, they feared arrest or injury...