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Word: potomac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City school system ignores the subject; the big Los Angeles system takes pride in treating it. Washington, D.C., offers candid sex education, at least partly to fight down the high rate (1,100 cases a year) of unwed pregnancy among high school girls; just across the Potomac in Virginia, state law prohibits any public school sex instruction. Even among communities that think sex is a fit classroom subject, there is no unanimity of approach; some teach blunt physiology, with pictures; some tiptoe around the topic; some scare kids and even lie to them; a few regard sex as primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Fourth R | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...other side of the Potomac, at Civil Defense headquarters, an official first heard about the blackout from a home-bound employee. When it did swing into action, the unwieldy agency determined that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Northeast: The Disaster That Wasn't | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Senate's chief operating conservative. He made few speeches and he proclaimed no set ideology. But as Chairman of the Finance Committee, he opposed the spending plans of five Presidents, prepared his own budget to show how expenditures could be brought back in line with revenues. Across the Potomac, his Democratic squirearchy firmly ruled the Old Dominion, where Byrd started his career in the state sen ate 50 years ago this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: Swan Song? | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Around 8, Moyers steps into a waiting limousine for the drive across the Potomac, scans four or five morning papers and the Congressional Record en route. At the circular desk in his office, furnished in the phone-booth-functional L.B.J. style that staffers call "Pedernales Renaissance," he phones the other special assistants to check the agenda. At 9, Moyers and his colleagues generally spend an hour with the President reviewing assignments and problems. Back in his office, Moyers prepares for his 11 a.m. press briefing, phoning Lyndon for .final instructions ten minutes before hand. Afterward, he leaves his door open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: L.B.J.'s Young Man In Charge of Everything | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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