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...serious disease. This month, however, a study in the Archives of Environmental Health reports that the 16 Virginians who died over the past 34 years of amoebic meningoencephalitis, an infection of the brain and spinal cord, had all apparently caught the disease in three fresh-water lakes near Richmond...
...house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown up at Gettysburg when he was supposed to, instead of galloping his cavalry hither and yon through the quiet backwoods of Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee might have won the Civil War's most crucial battle. Richmond today might be the capital of the Confederate States of America...
...phone rang one evening last week in the Governor's mansion in Richmond, Va. "Hello, Governor," said the caller. "This is Ron Ziegler speaking from Air Force One." Republican Governor Linwood Holton, a longtime friend and supporter of Nixon, had trouble hearing because of the electronic noises in the background. But he recognized Ziegler's voice and the message was clear: the President wanted to see Holton at the White House at 10 a.m. the next day. Holton quickly canceled his other appointments and flew off to see the President...
Holton had a private talk with Nixon and left with a warm presidential handshake. With the White House and Holton refusing to discuss the urgent summons, politicians and reporters back in Richmond speculated that they had talked about the 1972 campaign in the South, even that Nixon might have offered Holton the vice-presidential nomination, replacing Spiro Agnew...
Charles C. Hecksher of Eliot House and New York: Steven E. Hengen of Mather House and Richmond Hill, New York; Nicholas S. Hill of Winthrop House and Old Lyme, Connecticut; Todd M. Joseph of Winthrop House and Williamsville, New York; James W. Klein of Adams House and Larchmount, New York...