Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's shifts bring to 14 the number of ambassadorial assignments this year. The others: two of Ferguson's ex-colleagues in the Senate, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper (to India) and New Jersey's Robert Hendrickson (to New Zealand); an ex-governor, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge (to Spain); and six well seasoned career men, including James Dunn, a veteran of the Rome, Paris and Madrid embassies (to Brazil), James Bonbright, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (to Portugal), and Henry Byroade, razor-sharp former Assistant Secretary of State and Army brigadier general...
...gesture as in his paintings. He never cottoned to the art of his contemporaries, went his own way slowly. At about 40 he hit his peak, and never came down from it. The last half of Marin's life was mounting triumph. He divided it between New Jersey winters and Maine coast summers (except for two excursions to New Mexico), devoted it to painting pictures that were not so much windows on nature as calculated explosions of sea, sun and open air. He worked fast, using as few strokes as possible, and liked to call his work "writing...
...Douglas 3⅞ to 79½. After a one-day respite, the selling again spread through the list, to the railroads, steels, oils, motors. By week's end blue-chip losses ran to 3⅜ points for U.S. Steel (76½), 5⅞ for Jersey Standard (110), 4¼ for American Telephone & Telegraph (179¼), 5⅛ for General Motors (92⅞). In five days the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 19 points, to 401.08-lower than where it started the year...
Automatic Toll-Taker. New Jersey's Garden State Parkway is using a robot toll-taker that collects fares directly from motorists, corrects improper payments, sounds an alarm if a motorist fails to ante up properly, and has a camera that snaps a picture of the rear license plate if a car tries to get by without paying the toll...
...even Fifth Avenue and this is my town. My name is Rocky Graziano . . . and what's yours? I got a right to ask anybody that, even a cop . . . It's a free world and it's a big country which I know stretches away across the Jersey flats to where the jail is in the water, San Francisco. I am happy that I am Rocky Graziano and that I am living in this here country...