Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson supporter, announced himself a free agent. Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis publicly recalled his admiration for Kennedy, while Vermont Governor Philip Hoff came out for him officially, as did Massachusetts Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman. In Oregon, Representative Edith Green became a leader of Kennedy's campaign group. New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes, a Johnson loyalist, admitted that he would have "a very difficult time" holding his party organization together...
...refuse to let you make me a class-B citizen," thundered the minority leader. Dirksen was fulminating against an amendment to the proposed ethics code by Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark and New Jersey's Clifford Case, who wished to stiffen the relatively flaccid measure...
...several square miles of scabrous ghetto housing, Negroes in Newark brought their own endemic rage to last July's six-day riot that killed 26 and left the city's Central Ward a shambles. No single grievance enraged the ghetto more than the issue of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, which was scheduled to build a campus in the core of the slum...
...Negroes alike. But as originally planned early last year, it would also have uprooted some 20,000 Negroes from housing on the 150 acres of Central Ward land that the college wanted. "This," protested one resident, "is a diabolical plot!" After violence succeeded verbal resistance last summer, New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs Paul Ylvisaker began'encouraging black militants to mobilize a legal challenge against the school, which initially was planned as a research-oriented institution with little or no relationship to the slum community. Last week the challenge paid off in a unique victory for the Negro community...
...critics see it, even the best prison is still a totalitarian society that spurs human resistance and reinforces the criminal's cynicism. In this view, the solution is getting criminals to reform themselves in the process of reforming other criminals. This approach has worked wonders in New Jersey with groups of 20 delinquent boys housed at Highfields, the old Lindbergh mansion. After working at daytime jobs, the boys spend evenings listening to a selected boy's woes-and then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside the circle; but things get rough...