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...apparently trying, however. In a recent interview he traced his family tree and said, "My ancestors may have been Jewish. We're really not sure." Rockefeller has also done well in the past among black voters, but this time a highly regarded black state senator, Basil Paterson, is Goldberg's running mate...
Before he died in 1963 at the age of 79, Williams had treated, by his own count, a million and a half patients and delivered 2,000 babies, while delivering himself of 49 books. These included his five-volume industrial-age epic poem Paterson-along with 600-odd other poems, 52 short stories, four novels, four full-length plays and a brilliant, curiously neglected impression of American history (In the American Grain), not to mention an opera libretto and the translation of a medieval Spanish novel...
Dove Formation. Goldberg's victory was not the only important decision the Democratic voters rendered. His running mate for Lieutenant Governor will be Basil A. Paterson, 44, a highly regarded state senator and the first black to run for so high a state office on a major party ticket. Though challenged by a white town supervisor from suburban Long Island, Paterson ran far better than Goldberg, winning 69% of the vote. In a four-man contest for the U.S. Senate nomination to oppose Republican Incumbent Charles Goodell, an expensive barrage of polished television advertising turned obscurity into victory...
...attacked newsmen covering his headquarters. No one was seriously hurt, but cameras were smashed and TV cables ripped out. For some white voters, Gibson's triumph was a nightmare. Said one white man: "Harry Belafonte came in last week, and then there are those young Jewish lawyers from Paterson coming up here. It's all outsiders and Communists." Outside a polling place, Mrs. Josephine Heinze demanded: "Are we prejudiced because we voted for Addonizio?" Her daughter replied for both of them. Said Mrs. Nancy Natale: "No. we're just frightened." A black youth taunted a group...
...Jersey lawyer, unable to mail necessary papers to the courthouse, telephoned the judge who was handling his case and explained what he wanted to do. Then he called the opposing lawyer, who in turn called the judge to confirm receipt of the message. In Paterson, N.J., police divided up a stack of court orders and delivered them in patrol cars. "The absence of mail is vexatious," said Passaic County Judge Vincent Duffy, "but it won't stop the courts. Thank God for the telephone and the automobile...