Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milliken's "antiunion animus" and aimed at curbing unionism among Deering Milliken's 19,000 other employees. The board ordered back pay (now an estimated $12 million), minus interim earnings, for Darlington's fired workers until they found equivalent jobs. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond refused to enforce the NLRB order. The court said that Darlington had an "absolute prerogative" to quit business in whole or part at any time it wished. Having thus fairly ended the employment relationship, ruled the court, the company could not be held liable for union busting...
...varsity plays Byrd Park Club in Richmond Saturday, and then splits up to face Presbyterian, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Clemson next week...
...Looked & Left." Owens came to Selma U. as president in 1956 after 26 years in education. Son of an Acme, N.C., factory fireman, he worked at railroad jobs to finance his chemistry and French studies at Richmond's Virginia Union University. He later earned a master's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College and for 13 years at Leland College in Baker, La., becoming its president. When he first saw Selma U., Owens recalls, "I looked, turned around and left." Then, after deciding that the president...
...carried six Southern states to Goldwater's five, picked up 81 Southern electoral votes to Goldwater's 47. The report contends that it was the Negro vote that gave Johnson four of those states (Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia). In large Southern cities, such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Orlando and Houston, Goldwater did not run as well as had Eisenhower in 1956 and Nixon...
...tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...