Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overworked man who was occasionally somewhat strapped, and dipped into his political account for needed cash without intending to cornmit any offense or jeopardize his reputation. (On his $49,500 annual salary, Ford was then putting two of his four children through college and maintaining three homes?in Alexandria, Va., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Vail, Colo...
...tiny frozen-yogurt parlors that seem to have sprung up everywhere. Washington too has dozens of stores selling the stuff as well as a cruising truck dispensing only frozen yogurt. "It's ice cream without guilt. It's magic," says the hopeful proprietor of Yogurt Yogurt, an Alexandria, Va., shop opening this week. The magic began four years ago in Cambridge's Harvard Square. There, in a hole in the wall called the Spa, William Silverman, a shrewd merchant, began selling the already popular cultured-milk product in a frozen version and soon attracted long lines...
...renovating them and turning them to new uses. The process-alas, called "recycling" in current jargon-has caught on across the U.S. In Salt Lake City trolley-car barns now house an entertainment center; a Cleveland power plant has become a theater; what was once a torpedo factory in Alexandria, Va., is an arts center...
Even in retirement, a Virginia planter has obligations. Washington served in the House of Burgesses from 1759 on, as a justice in Alexandria from 1760-74 and as a delegate to both Continental Congresses. Now, under the burdens of command, he drives himself even harder than he drives his men, sometimes rising as early...
...even Catholics who are liberal on marital and sexual issues can be adamant about abortion - at least for themselves and their families. "Abortion is murder to me," says Mary Ann Murphy, 54, of Alexandria, Va. "But I cannot jam my religious beliefs down someone else's throat." Jan Slevin, a nurse, refused to work in the obstetrics unit of Washington General Hospital because of the many abortions performed there. "In a case of incest, rape or some psychological trauma," she concedes, "I can see a morning-after pill or a shot to prevent pregnancy. But I think abortion...