Word: fairfaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schools against which the suit was filed in 1972-Bobbe's Private School in Arlington and Fairfax-Brewster School in Fairfax County-both denied in the court that race had been their guide, but Judge Bryan called the denials "unbelievable." Neither school has ever had a black pupil or a black applicant. Bryan said the admissions policies of the schools show no "plan or purpose of exclusiveness for the selection of students other than race." The fact that the schools are open to every white child, he said, "disposes of the argument that these were truly private schools...
Ticket holders who had paid $20 to $500 to attend an Inaugural concert were disappointed when the emcee, Francis Albert Sinatra, failed to appear. But later in the evening, guests at a champagne breakfast at the Jockey Club in Washington's Fairfax Hotel witnessed a Sinatra performance that was-well, a performance...
...provide dresses of the Revolutionary period for the hostesses at candlelight dinners at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Then somebody came up with the idea of a marching band with a symbolic number of players -1,976. So every high school in suburban Virginia's Fairfax County produced young musicians to form a band that stretched for two blocks...
Marge Crerie of Fairfax, Va, got even more. "I danced with the President," she said. "I kissed him on the cheek and left a big lipstick mark. I kissed Pat Nixon, too, and told them both I love them...
...Richard Nixon won close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...