Word: jerseys
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...assault left the First Lady speechless. But not the usually jovial wife of New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes, mother of eleven. "Anybody who is taking pot just because there is a war in Viet Nam is some kind of kook," shot back Mrs. Hughes, whose first husband died in World...
Navy Captain Richard G. Alexander, 45, was one of the most promising young four-stripers in the fleet. Last year the Navy Department rewarded that promise by giving him command of the U.S.S. New Jersey, which will become the world's only operational battleship when it is recommissioned this April. Last week the Navy Department revealed that Alexander had exercised the most ignominious prerogative open to a blue-water sailor: he formally requested that he be relieved of his command of the New Jersey. The request was promptly granted, and he was given shore duty...
...inquiry and added: "Mr. Secretary, what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the U.S. Navy." Alexander promised Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations, that if his cause failed, he would request reassignment from the coveted New Jersey command. When the bill came due, Alexander paid it like an officer and a gentleman...
...Kantrowitz team was prepared for delay in finding a donor with Block's blood type, AB, Rh positive. This is found in only about 5% of Americans. By extraordinary chance, the first potential donor reported to Maimonides was AB positive. She was Helen Krouch, 29, a New Jersey office worker who had seemed in perfect health when she told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking...
Rising Role. In his formidable task of trying to persuade businessmen to comply willingly with controls that many resent, "Sandy" Trowbridge will need all of his considerable charm. Athletically trim (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) and handsome as a cinema star, New Jersey-born Trowbridge graduated cum laude from Princeton ('51), won a Bronze Star as a Marine second lieutenant in Korea. A onetime assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (then a Congressman and later Commerce Under Secretary), Trowbridge spent eleven years in the oil industry, mostly in Cuba, El Salvador, the Philippines and Panama. He was president...