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...William Paterson of New Jersey opened the small states' attack on June 9 by proposing a reconsideration of proportional representation. "New Jersey will never confederate on the plan," he declared. "She would be swallowed up. I will never consent to the present system . . . Myself or my state will never submit to tyranny or despotism." The supporters of the Virginia plan were no less vehement. "Are not the citizens of Pennsylvania equal to those of New Jersey?" demanded James Wilson of Pennsylvania. "Does it require 150 of the former to balance 50 of the latter? . . . If the small states will...
...small states took the offensive on June 15, when Paterson presented the relatively cautious New Jersey plan. It called for a unicameral legislature of limited authority, with each state getting one vote. Others offered plans of their own. Hamilton, for example, declared that the new nation should have a kinglike executive to govern as long as he was on "good behavior." So they voted again, and the Virginians won again, by 7 to 3. And the struggle continued...
Fred Midler, a civilian house painter for the Navy, and his wife Ruth moved there from Paterson, N.J., in the late '30s. Ruth named Bette, the third of her four children, after Bette Davis. "My mother was, oh, stunning," Bette recalls, "and very hardworking. She sewed beautifully. She made all our clothes for years, until my parents discovered the Salvation Army. We were really poor. We didn't have a TV or a telephone until the late '50s. We lived in subsidized housing in the middle of sugarcane fields." Most of the families in the neighborhood were Samoan, Japanese, Hawaiian...
...Characterizing the attack that killed Odeh as "terrorist," an FBI spokesman said that the Jewish Defense League, a militant pro-Israel organization, is "the possible responsible group" for Odeh's assassination as well as two separate bombings of suspected Nazis last summer. One of those blasts proved fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times has reported that the bombs used in all three cases were of similar design...
Unfortunately, Gilbert's tender heart finds it impossible to kill the pig and prefers to let it carry out its pungent existence in his suburban home. Meanwhile, the evil Ministry of Food inspector Wormold (Bill Paterson) is keeping his Big Brother-esque eye on him. A man with neither smell nor taste, Wormold is fast becoming suspicious of Gilbert...