Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack toured France, Spain, and Italy during the summer and returned with slightly broadened ideas. He was elected to the Spee Club and the Pudding. He also survived a ten-week competition and become an editor on the CRIMSON business board...
Clyde Leid, city editor of the Trentonian, believes that the state's underlying Republican strength stems from the tendency of New Jersey voters to turn out in large numbers only for national contests, and then to vote as they did in the last election. Leid added that since Eisenhower piled up a margin of 700,000 votes in 1956, Kennedy has a long, hard fight...
...state's most populous areas, industrial Hudson County that includes Jersey City and Bayonne, and suburban Bergen County that is one of the nation's highest per capita income sections. Bergen, long a Republican stronghold, went for Eisenhower by 170,000 votes in 1956. Carl Jellinghaus, assistant managing editor of the Bergen Evening Record, predicts that Bergen will deliver a 60,000 margin for Nixon on Tuesday. This is far less than 170,000, but Jellinghaus explains that any comparison with Eisenhower is "not fair...
Democrats, however, point to this drop in Republican estimates as a portent of things to come. Robert Caldwell, managing editor of the Bayonne Times in Hudson, thinks that his county will give Kennedy a 100,000 edge, enough to insure victory in the state. He reported that the dissident factions who have been picking at the remains of the old Hague Democratic machine in Jersey City have united behind the party and are successfully getting out the vote. Caldwell cites Hudson's 78 per cent Catholic population as an important factor in the county's support of Kennedy...
Allen Van Fossen, city editor of the Courier Post that serves Camden and the southern end of the state, and Ken Rhodes, political reporter for the Atlantic City Press, both agree that voters in their areas will stick pretty closely to former voting patterns. This, both men believe, will make the race very close...