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...President Kennedy had originally picked to run for the Democrats was his close friend, Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. But Thompson wanted to stay on Capitol Hill, and eventually the choice went to Trenton Lawyer Richard J. Hughes, 51, who last week won his primary easily. Father of six (and three stepchildren) and, like Mitchell, a Roman Catholic, Hughes has capably held two Jersey judgeships. But his political views seem vague, and the charge that he carries water on both political shoulders has won him a nickname: "Two Buckets...
...Jail." When most wardens detect prison recruiting, they clap the hard-core Muslims into solitary or transfer them to other prisons. "There was a time when they tended to congregate in the yard," says Warden George Goodman of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, "but we quickly stopped that. We may have nipped a potentially serious problem in the bud, but I cannot be sure." Oftentimes, recruiting goes right on even when the Muslim leaders are segregated. An office worker at Breathedsville was recently exposed as a Muslim. He had managed to run off hundreds of sheets of propaganda...
...Newcomers: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles-Long Beach, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, Akron, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Asheville, Corpus Christi, Flint, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Louisville, Mobile, Newark, New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, Portland, Ore., Savannah, Tacoma, Toledo, Trenton, Worcester, and York...
...Jersey. The voters have a choice between two able, liberal intellectuals, the Republican incumbent, Clifford Case, and Democratic Kingmaker Thorn Lord (full name: Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord). A big-time lawyer, Lord works in Trenton, lords it over a claque of intellectuals at home in Princeton. No mere egghead, he is a shrewd politician who rebuilt the Democratic Party statewide after the collapse of Jersey City's Boss Hague, was one of the earliest advocates of all-out registration drives. After Lord masterminded Bob Meyner's rise to the governor's mansion, the awed northern Jersey bosses...
When Elia Kazan called Sally one 4:30 a.m. and casually requested 250 "chaste teen-agers," she soon had a string of buses rolling toward Manhattan from a Catholic girls' school in Trenton, NJ. "I want a dozen brunettes," said Kazan another time. "And I want each one of them to be so luscious that without saying a word, you just know that . . ." She was also ready with blondes when Kazan changed his mind...