Word: jersey
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...marketing representative for a New Jersey advertiser to college students openly mourned the end of Head of the Charles revelry, though he said the Head still had its strong points. "A lot of blonde girls," he said, "unseasonably blonde." And cleancut young men to match. The perfect J. Crew cover...
Whether abortion is an issue that will decide the outcome of elections is being tested in Governor's campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey. Race was expected to be a dominant preoccupation in Virginia, where Democratic Lieut. Governor Douglas Wilder is seeking to become the nation's first elected black Governor. But while it may never be far from voters' minds, the race issue has failed to materialize, allowing Wilder to keep the focus on the antiabortion views of his Republican opponent, Marshall Coleman...
...Jersey, Democrat Jim Florio has built a substantial lead over Republican Congressman Jim Courter in part by reminding voters of Courter's solid antiabortion voting record in Congress. Courter has been forced into a defensive retreat, promising that if elected he will keep his hands off the state's liberal abortion laws. "After Courter won the primary, he appeared to modify his position," admits John Tomicki, executive director of the New Jersey Right to Life Committee. "We believe he was uncomfortable with the issue." Kathryn Kolbert, an attorney for the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project, puts it more bluntly...
...choice groups have pumped time and money into campaigns against Coleman and Courter. Last week NARAL previewed a pair of anti-Coleman commercials it has produced for the Virginia race. In New Jersey the group expects to spend $100,000 on Florio's behalf. The organization also plans to contact 50,000 specially selected G.O.P. and independent voters who might be persuaded to support him solely on the basis of his pro-choice stance. "Abortion is now a dominant issue in American politics," says Kate Michelman, NARAL's executive director. Pro-choice activists are doing everything they can to keep...
...talk aesthetics," he prodded. "Beauty counts for nothing in that study. But I, for one, would prefer a stroll along the Charles with a paramour to a furtive dash through New Haven alleyways or an asthmatic traipse through Jersey smog...