Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign organization, his troubles with the dissident Democratic left. Though not really prepared to mount a major campaign swing?Larry O'Brien had barely taken over as manager of a badly disorganized Democratic machine?Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine speeches a day. Advance arrangements were sketchy, crowds at some major stops thin or indifferent. In Philadelphia, the sparse crowd gave a bigger hand to Comedian Joey Bishop, a home-town boy who was traveling with Humphrey, than it gave...
Nuclear Alchemy. A New Jersey engineering professor and his wife, after similar experiences, have had damaged skin removed and replaced with grafts. How had the rings become contaminated? Since radon has a half life of only 3.8 days (meaning that it loses half its radioactivity in that interval), the seeds should soon have become harmless. Trouble is, the radon turns, by nuclear alchemy, into lead-210, the radioactive isotope of that normally dull metal. The lead-210 adheres to the gold. Even so, the intact seeds are safe because the lead's rays, unlike the radon's, remain...
...year later earned his business-administration degree from Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Father Al Tisch, who had prospered operating summer camps, staked his son to $125,000, and Laurence-consulting ads in the New York Times-used it to purchase a resort hotel in New Jersey. He and his brother expanded before long to New York, where they bought or built such hotels as the Drake, the Warwick and the Americana. In 1960, at the ripe age of 37, Tisch acquired Loew's. The hotel and theater chain has grown a lot since then, but it is still...
Even when judged by the sedate standards of the resort town of Cape May, on the southern tip of New Jersey, the 3,000 conventioners were an extraordinary crew. The delegates to the Seventh World Congress of the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches did not drink, nor did they smoke; they spent most of their time browsing through Scriptures and savoring the special satisfactions of zealous dissent...
...That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like the boatload of hippies who put to sea from Boston last year with only a homing pigeon for communication. When the weather turned bad, the hippies released the bird. Eventually they were rescued off the New Jersey coast...