Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birdbrains in my comic strip Shoe. I would like to devote less time to the birdbrains on the national and international stages." So said Jeff MacNelly, 33, last week as he announced that he was giving up regular political cartooning. From his editorial-page perch at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, MacNelly had drawn and quartered Washington wildlife through eleven years and four Administrations. His winsome wit and goofily graceful draftsmanship had won him two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine too long. Says he: "I would...
There are photographs of Betsy Richmond, who gave Harvard's women's tennis program new-found credibility three years ago by winning the triple crown--individual titles at the New Englands, GBCs, and Mass states. Current star Tina Bougas repeated the feat a year later...
...every other lemon-lime soft drink on the planet. It sells thousands of homes a year in Mission Viejo, Calif..and the suburbs of Denver. But most of all. Philip Morris sells cigarettes--Marlboro, Merit, Virginia Slims. Benson and Hedges. Parliament, Alpine, Saratoga 120s and others. Machines in the Richmond facility put tobacco into paper tubes, hand the cigarettes, cut them, insert filters, box them, put the boxes into the cartons and the cartons into cases and the cases into trucks. How many? These figures are from one factory- 600 million cigarettes a day, 140 billion cigarettes a year. Overall...
...abbreviation of outward detail. He prepares us quickly for our journey into William Ellery Channing's mind; we learn in six taut paragraphs that he graduated from Harvard with a gift for oratory and sailed for Virginia in November, 1798, where he grew less sociable and more insular in Richmond as he searched for direction and purpose in his life. Five years later he had decided on a career in the ministry, and spent the rest of his life trying to work out the dilemmas of self and society...
Selwyn Atherton of Richmond, Mass., and James Garivaltis of Pittsfield, Mass., won the National Senior Men's Paddle Tennis Championships in Michigan...