Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There seems to be little doubt about the swift, sure confirmation of Powell, 64. A Richmond lawyer, he sailed smoothly through his relatively brief appearance before the committee. Mainly a judicial conservative, Powell has a distinguished legal record and once served as president of the American Bar Association. During his questioning he emphasized the work he had done for liberal causes, especially his efforts to keep Virginia schools open in opposition to the official state policy of "massive resistance" to integration during the 1950s. Consequently, the committee liberals -Bayh, Edward Kennedy, Philip Hart of Michigan and John Tunney of California...
...children, in fact, are handling the situation as well as any. Though he could have sent them to any public school in Richmond-the Governor's mansion is excluded from busing plans because it is on state rather than city land-Holton has put his elder daughter, Tayloe, 15, into a high school that is 88% black; Anne, 13, and Woody, 12, attend a middle school 86% black, and Dwight, 5, a school that is 50% black. All seem to have thrived...
State Department beat after a stint in Eastern Europe. At the U.N. he covered the U.S. role in the proceedings. William Marmon, born in Richmond, once taught Latin in Greece, later covered the war in Viet Nam. Last week Marmon, along with David Aikman, analyzed China's probable impact on the U.N. (and vice versa). Aikman, an Englishman, has a doctorate in Chinese and Russian history, and is fluent in eight languages...
...solvency to a number of quite successful productions in the past two years. During the first two weekends in December, the Quincy House Drama Society is renting the Leverett House Theatre for a production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night directed by David Richmond...
...First Amendment which guarantees freedom of speech has an additional advantage. It disrobes those among us who can damage the rest of our freedoms. This was keenly displayed by the newly nominated Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., in an article printed August 1, 1971 in the Richmond Times...