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Spong, who lives in Portsmouth, rose to prominence as the leader of the urban bloc in Virginia's General Assembly. For 30 years the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But within the last 10 years a band of moderates, consisting of representatives from Richmond, the urban areas of Northern Virginia, and Tidewater cities like Norfolk and Portsmouth has sprung up between the two extremes in the party...
...have vastly boosted the annual inflow. Authorities believe that thousands of illegal immigrants are flown to Belgium or France and then, in a lucrative people-smuggling trade, ferried across the English Channel to deserted beaches (fare: $1,200 to $1,800). Between 1962 and 1966, the annual immigrant inflow rose from 6,580 to 32,689. Last year, boosted by illegal entries, it topped...
...symptoms appeared back home-though not in the transplanted heart of recuperating Patient Philip Blaiberg (see MEDICINE). Barnard's wife Louwtjie, 39, in an interview with London's Sunday Express, had some heartfelt words about "this whole business of fame." Said Louwtjie: "The whole world is showering rose petals on Chris. He's getting fabulous offers, and women from all over the world write love letters to him. Suddenly he can do no wrong. But he can. He's not a saint. When Chris walks in our door, he walks into reality...
...contract at $3 a day. She moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose. In the 1920s, she was one of Sam Goldwyn's original Goldwyn Girls, earning $250,000 a year -but then came the talkies and the fading of her nova...
Murphy is one educator who really deserves the title "doctor." He started as a physician in Kansas, became dean of the University of Kansas medical school, later rose to chancellor of the university. While serving on Government and private cultural committees, he has been a director of companies as diverse as the Ford Motor Co., McCall Corp. and Hallmark Cards...