Word: jersey
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Some hardy Democratic perennials bloomed again at the polls. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Scoop Jackson of Washington, New Jersey's Harrison Williams, West Virginia's Robert Byrd and Mississippi's John Stennis all won easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated...
...Jersey, incumbent Democrat Helen Meyner, 47, wife of a former Governor, won her second term after a campaign in which she graciously told voters, "Let the best man win, whomever she may be." Republican Challenger William Schluter passed out thousands Of I'M A SCHLUTER ROOTER buttons, in hopes that the voters might learn how to pronounce his name?even though he had served eight years in the state senate...
...Jersey voters decided by a large margin to allow gambling casinos to be built and operated in Atlantic City. The referendum on gambling was one of the hottest issues in the state, arousing the strong opposition of religious leaders and law-enforcement officials who warned that turning the beach-resort city into a Las Vegas East would attract not only tourists but also organized crime, prostitution and loan sharks. The Committee to Rebuild Atlantic City spent $1 million arguing that casino gambling would resuscitate the dowdy, declining resort and bring much-needed revenue into the city and the state...
...some states, including New Jersey, Illinois and Texas, some handicapped have been going to school with normal children for years. In many schools they go to regular classes only part time; in others, specially trained teachers visit their classes daily. In Los Angeles, state funds have enabled the school district to hire 80 extra nurses, psychologists and supplemental teachers. Danny Kodmur, 11, who has cerebral palsy and had been attending a special school until last year, was elected president of the student body by his new classmates at L.A.'s Cheremoya Elementary School this fall...
Standing on the Hollis South steps--the only soul in the Yard at the time--was a creature with a boyish face and short-cropped hair, clad in a crimson jersey with the Harvard insignia on it, baggy tan pants, white socks and tattered grey shoes...