Thomas Gallia was a graduate student doing a science lab on the roof of a classroom building at Glassboro State College when the Secret Service took his student ID and rousted him from the building.

He was interrupted during the most heralded three-day stretch in the history of the college - the remarkable 1967 meeting, in the midst of the Cold War, between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin at Hollybush, the college president's home.

But the town was not able to capitalize on its international publicity. Instead, its decline accelerated.

Strip centers and Deptford Mall opened nearby, while the glass business that had shaped Glassboro went into demise. The glimmer of its downtown dimmed, and longtime residents moved to newer suburbs.

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