National Affairs: New Jersey Jolt

Studded with good middle-class suburbs are Morris and Union counties in New Jersey. Together they compose the State's 5th Congressional district, hold 10% of its population. Elizabeth is an industrial entity unto itself but in Morristown, Mendham, Madison, Summit. Plainfield et al. live countless families whose heads have 9:30-to-4:30 o'clock jobs in the city, who are not quite so socially smart as the residents of Somerset County (Far Hills, Bernardsville, Peapack) with 10-to-4 o'clock jobs, but who do hold a higher head than the 9-to-5 commuters of Essex County (Montclair and the Oranges)....

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