Word: jerseys
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...help the reader sort these experiences, Wilson intersperses explanations, second thoughts, and pithy portraits of his family and friends. From these, the biographical outlines emerge: childhood in the enlightened Victorian household of a former New Jersey attorney general, a trip to Europe, education at the Hill Preparatory School in Pottstown, Pa., and at Princeton, Army service overseas in World...
From Hackensack to Pottstown, Lock Haven to Dover, the power lines went dead for up to nine daylight hours throughout a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of the East. More than 13 million people, living in three-quarters of New Jersey, much of eastern Pennsylvania, eastern Maryland and northern Delaware, were caught last week in the nation's second great power failure...
...failure crippled nearly one-third of the 48,000-sq.-mi. area served by the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, a power grid serving those three states plus Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It began in southeastern Pennsylvania, when a 230,000-volt power line abruptly surged with 606,000 kilowatts. The overloaded line heated up and cross-circuited with a low-voltage line. The Philadelphia Electric Co. had twice warned system dispatchers to anticipate a heavy load and split it between two lines, but the orders, for some reason, were disregarded. The short circuit automatically shut down Philadelphia Electric...
...weeks ago, he was grounded for 15 days after he veered sharply in the stretch and blocked three other horses. Advocator won by 1¼ lengths, but was disqualified by the stewards-costing Owner Rice $54,405. Two weeks ago, Ycaza earned another 15-day suspension from New Jersey stewards for rough riding aboard William L. McKnight's three-year-old colt, Dr. Fager, in the $119,200 Jersey Derby at Garden State Park. Going into the first turn, he dropped in sharply, cutting off his competitors and forcing one into the infield rail. Dr. Fager coasted across...
Some fishermen, like Otis Smith, who operates fleets and processing plants in New Jersey and Delaware, did not think it even worthwhile to join the chase. Others reduced their fleets: J. Howard Smith, Inc., of Port Monmouth, N.J., for example, sold one of its newest boats to an ocean-research firm...