Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Byrds came from England to Virginia in 1670, grew wealthy from 18th century tobacco plantations and the slave trade; Harry's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Richmond, that nostalgic capital of lost causes. In the 19th century the family invested less shrewdly, and by the time Harry was 15, the Byrds were on the brink of bankruptcy. He quit school, took over management of a family newspaper and made it prosper. He also staked out a small patch of orchard near the little town of Berryville, expanded his preserve until it encompassed 5,000 acres, and eventually became...
...Metals Founder Richard Reynolds, who was starting his way up the family ladder as an executive in the company's subsidiary Eskimo Pie Corp.; of head injuries suffered when he accidentally walked into the spinning propeller of a twin-engined light plane he was thinking of buying; in Richmond...
...A.B.A. proposals offer no threat to freedom of the press. "Reporters might get out and do some digging instead of running over to the D.A.'s office for a handout," says Manhattan Lawyer Robert Kasanoff. The whole point is to focus trials in courtrooms rather than newspapers, declares Richmond's Lewis F. Powell Jr., former president of the A.B.A. The result would fortify the A.B.A.'s canons of ethics, which have condemned pretrial talk by lawyers since 1908. As Powell puts it: "There would not be suppression of news but merely deferment...
...than moo in this moovie. There is, for example, a galloping good story that describes with cheerful inaccuracy how in 1864 a troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...
...already been acquitted of the shotgun slaying of Episcopal Seminarian Jonathan Daniels, and was subsequently charged with wounding Daniels' companion, Roman Catholic Priest Richard Morrisroe. Though the priest had been blasted in the back, Coleman was indicted only for "assault and battery," a charge that Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers termed ridiculous. As the trial began, Flowers requested dismissal of the case, so as to leave open the possibility that Coleman might be rein-dieted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Circuit Judge T. Werth Thagard was only too happy to comply -dismissing the case "with...