Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chain Gang. Meanwhile, Cartoonist Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer drew rock breakers in an Eastern European chain gang whispering, "President Ford declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...
Somewhere along the line, a friendly soul?or perhaps Ford himself?evidently held on to the check until he was able to get his personal account back into balance. Not until Jan. 11, 1973, did the check clear the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which processes checks for Washington-area banks. Thus, Ford had the personal use of campaign funds for some six weeks...
Merhige's reminder, delivered in his Richmond courtroom last week, was the toughest sentence ever imposed on a corporation in a pollution case: a $13.2 million fine to be paid by the Allied Chemical Corp. for discharging Kepone and other chemical wastes. Slipshod procedures in the manufacture of the deadly pesticide in Hopewell, Va., had forced the closing of the lower James River in Virginia to fishermen since December; more than 70 people, all employees of the now closed plant or members of their families, had been treated for Kepone poisoning, symptoms of which include brain and liver damage...
...case, most of all this top-notch talent you're paying for is in Boston as part of the Boston University Celebrity Series, now in its fortieth year. Founded by the late Aaron Richmond, the Celebrity Series works approximately eighteen months in advance to schedule 35 concerts and recitals per season...
...Handle Saturday. Not only have the academies spawned resegregation, but many urban school districts -especially in Atlanta, Richmond, Charleston, S.C., and Houston-have become increasingly black because a large number of whites have moved to the suburbs. Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. Sometimes the black students segregate themselves. For example, at the season's first pep rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says Dorothy...