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...play opens to the strains of Robb Jordan's original score, parts of which demonstrate considerable talent. The theme which begins and closes the play is haunting and melodic. The music is impressive, and only rarely does Jordan fall into the pitfalls of a beginning composer, repetition and monotony...
Virginia Governor Charles Robb first heard of the decadent direct dialing from his press secretary. "There's some good news and some bad news," George Stoddart told Robb. "The bad news is that state employees from 84 agencies racked up more than $1,000 in telephone calls to a pornographic recording in New York. The good news is that none came from the Governor's mansion." The largest number of dialings, it was learned, came from offices at the University of Virginia and from the department of highways and transportation. There were also a scattering of calls from...
...Robb said he is setting up the professorship in memory of his freshman year lectures who "tremendously impressed" him. He added. "They represented to me a level of instruction which is one of the outstanding attributes of a Harvard education," he said...
Through his campaign Jessup met folksy Texas Evangelist Ed Robb, 56, a conservative Democrat and a leader in Good News, an evangelical caucus that had long criticized Methodist agencies for overplaying social issues. Good News promoted Jessup's charges in its publications. A few months later, Jessup and Robb set up the I.R.D. in Washington, D.C., to monitor political activity by various denominations. They enlisted a credibility-building board of advisers whose 28 members range from socialist to right-wing on domestic issues but are pro-U.S. on foreign policy...
...forces work as they have in the past, then a Southerner should have an excellent chance, especially on a Mondale or Glenn ticket. In addition to the Presidential aspirants, some other Southern politicians who appear to be of Vice Presidential stature (if such a rank exists) include Governors Charles Robb of Virginia, Mark White of Texas, and William Winter of Mississippi. In any event, a Southern presence will almost certainly be felt at the 1984 convention. And Southern candidacies could go far towards reconciling Northern Democrats with the ex-confederacy...