Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consider a summit meeting with Russia. The horrors of nuclear warfare, they wrote, make the attempt worthwhile. The six: Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy, Montana's Lee Metcalf, Wisconsin's Henry S. Reuss, Pennsylvania's George M. Rhodes, California's James Roosevelt, New Jersey's Frank Thompson...
Immediate reaction to the surprise Soviet advancement has been a typically American one--to spend more money. In his recent television speech to the nation President Eisenhower suggested a nationwide science test, with subsidies going to those students who show aptitude. "This suggestion," said New Jersey's Commissioner of Education, was "the most dangerous ever to come out of Washington. If we permit nationwide tests, we will be teaching what the test makers want us to teach; we would have directions on what to teach from the Federal government...
...switch from the customary muscle operation, the Professor on at least one occasion used sweet-talk in pursuing the mob's objectives, according to committee files. "Inasmuch," he once implored a Jersey City cargo exporter, "as the Jersey City waterfront has immoral and undependable and unpredictable working types, I think you should consider moving your operators to Brooklyn [where the docks are run by "Tough Tony" Anastasia, the late Albert's brother]. All I can offer you is the guarantee of a scholar and a gentleman. Let me assure you that I will give you 5,000 spiritually...
...flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...
...Adrain Robert Fisher, 62, president of Johns-Manville Corp., largest U.S. manufacturer of asbestos and fireproofing materials (1956 sales: a record $310,390,381), was named chairman and chief executive officer to succeed Leslie M. Cassidy, who retired. After graduating from Rutgers ('16) and working for two New Jersey manufacturers, he joined Johns-Manville in 1923 as superintendent of the asphalt-roofing department in its Waukegan, Ill. plant, soon moved to the managerial side as production executive, in 1951 became president (a post he will retain). Since the end of World War 11 the company has invested more than...