Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little man, for the minority group. The only underprivileged man he's forgotten is me. I could use some help around the White House. I've never gotten any." For another Rabb wellwisher, Democrat Kennedy's toast was just too much. "Jack," exploded New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, "I've been around Washington a few years now, and if there's one guy that isn't underprivileged, it's you. That's the worst joke I've heard in a long time, and I wish to God I were just...
Before the 526th AAA Missile Battalion installed batteries of Nike-Ajax missiles in northern New Jersey three years ago, the Army carefully explained that the 21-ft. TNT and shrapnel projectiles were virtually accident-proof. A missile battery, said the Army, was no more dangerous a neighbor than a gas station. Last week the gas-station blew up. Installing a trigger modification on one of the 526th B Battery Nikes near Leonardo, N.J., ordnance technicians accidentally detonated the missile. Explosion and flame touched off seven more Nikes squatting on adjacent pads, blew or burned ten men to death, showered...
...with two dozen other missile installations ringing New York City, B Battery is scheduled to replace its TNT Nike-Ajaxes after this year with the atomic Nike-Hercules. In the wake of Leonardo's explosive afternoon, it was going to be hard to convince the neighbors in New Jersey-or around the Nikes guarding 22 other U.S. industrial complexes-that living alongside atomic warheads was still like living beside a gas station...
...finding his way around outer space, German-born Missileman Willy Ley got out of orbit on the New Jersey seaside. Invited to address a dental society meeting in Atlantic City, Scientist Ley arrived four hours late, explained that he had circled for an hour in Asbury Park (65 miles away) before being set on course...
...both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter...