Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reported back to President Johnson that the election victory of Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu (see cover story) seemed fair. To be sure, the observers could not be everywhere, and in most cases were taken in tow by Vietnamese officials. "We could all possibly have been bamboozled," allowed New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, "but it would have taken a minimum of 25,000 character actors and about 11,000 stagehands to put on the production we have seen...
...proud-owner of Chet Huntley's beef farm [Aug. 18] out "in the badlands of central New Jersey" (sometimes referred to by other purveyors of news as that beautifully tranquil countryside out near Bucks County, Pa.), I feel constrained to advise your readership that Marshal Dillon has all the vigilantes locked in the hoosegow, and they won't be let out unless the Beverly Hillbillies ride in to shoot up the town...
...themselves about the conduct of the campaign. In Binh Thuan province, for example, Whitney Young of the Urban League talked things over with Senatorial Candidate Nguyen Van Viet. "Does the province chief favor one candidate over another?" Young asked. "I think not," answered Viet. Governor Richard Hughes of New Jersey put the question even more bluntly: "Has it been a fair campaign?" Said Viet: "Fair, honest, with no interference...
...operates the Air Force's Distant Early Warning (DEW) system. It even drew on its overall management know-how to pick up the thankless task of running the federal Job Corps project at Camp Kilmer, which was bound to be controversial if only because residents of surrounding New Jersey communities did not want a conclave of so-called juvenile delinquents in their midst. After a noisy start, the camp has gone out of the headlines, and even its early critics now concede that it is well...
...conglomerate companies like Gulf & Western Industries, such mergers have had spectacular results. Under Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, Gulf & Western, which a decade ago was an ailing Houston auto-parts company, has gobbled up one company after another (among them: Paramount Pictures, New Jersey Zinc) to balloon into a $1 bil-lion-a-year operation. A pioneer in the conglomerate-building field, Los Angeles' Litton Industries, which was started almost from scratch by Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton (TIME cover, Oct. 4, 1963) and President Roy Ash in 1953, is still building. Last week, Litton (1966 sales: $1.2 billion) arranged...