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...Governor is a Roman Catholic who neither drinks nor smokes; he has seven children. In public he tends to be stiff and shy. After graduating from Princeton and Harvard (LL.B, '51), he served as an aide to Governor Robert B. Meyner for 3% years. In 1959 he was appointed prosecutor of Essex County and came to public attention by successfully prosecuting five contractors involved in construction scandals in Newark, as well as Racketeer Anthony ("Tony Boy") Boiardo. He became head of the state's public utilities commission in 1968 and was appointed by Cahill to the Superior Court...
...Chicago, ex-Cop Eddie Bray, who heads a private detective agency called American Security Agents, Inc., reports that there has been a 100% increase in one lucrative phase of his operations -"debugging," the detection of hidden devices used to eavesdrop. In New York, John Meyner, president of Sonic Devices, Inc., which also peddles "bug"-finding skills, says he cannot drive through downtown Manhattan without picking up a flood of illegal eavesdropping signals on his sensitive detectors. Just four blocks from the White House, an electronics store named the Spy Shop is doing a thriving business selling both eavesdropping and debugging...
...swing state, New Jersey is a bellwether coveted by both parties. It was the last big, highly industrialized state with a Democratic Governor. The Democrats, in a ripping primary, nominated Robert Meyner, 61, for Governor; he held the office from 1954 to 1961. The Republicans also fought a tough primary, which was won by William Cahill, 57, a six-term Congressman who was virtually unknown outside of his district. Cahill, an amiable but bland campaigner, overcame his recognition problem in a series of twelve debates with Meyner, some of them televised. Few policy differences emerged between the two moderates...
Cahill was acceptable to both liberal and conservative Republicans, and used his support of Nixon as a party rallying point. Meyner simply failed to unite Democrats or ignite independents. He probably had the best explanation for the proportions of his defeat. "I would suspect," he said on Election Night, "that there is a time when one who seeks public office seeks it one too many times. This apparently was the time...
...states where President Nixon had made special campaign trips. In Virginia. Linwood Holton became the first Republican governor since the 1880's when he beat William Battle. And in Now Jersey, Republican Congressman William Cahill took almost 60 per cent of the vote in defeating former governor Robert Meyner...