Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters. But at midsummer it would have been a "very bad business for me to drop out" because of "the state of legislation on the Hill." Now, at 70-after 50 years of public life since his commissioning as a second lieutenant-he was retiring to his Leesburg, Va. home for "very personal reasons." His successor was his longtime associate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Abercrombie Lovett-"Nobody else in the United States will have his understanding and competence...
Since the founding of their order 20 years ago, the sisters of the Roman Catholic Society of Christ Our King have worn a habit patterned after that of the Carmelite nuns. On the order's farm at Danville, Va., this has led to practical difficulties, e.g., flowing sleeves get in the way when the sisters drive their Dodge truck. Last week the tiny sisterhood (nine members) had a brand-new habit. Its designer: Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie...
During most of his stay at Cannes, Farouk appeared regularly at the casino at 10 p.m. Seating himself at the "tout va" (no limit) table, his hairy chest showing through the opened neck of his shirt, he would snap his fingers, and an attendant would place a stack of chips in front of His Majesty. He tossed in the square white discs, worth a million francs ($2,850) each, as though they were marbles, and when he won, he shouted "Je vous ai eu! [Got you!]," roaring with laughter. When he lost, he laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left...
Later the Gardners moved to Newport News, Va., where her father went to work in a sawmill and her mother ran a boarding house. In school the kids made fun of her. She was shy with boys. "Here I was," she says, "this strange little hillbilly ..." She went to secretarial school, and, for one year, to Atlantic Christian College. Her girlhood, she says, was full of insecurities. "What a generation. No wonder we are all neurotic and crazy...
...bills which had been held up by months of wrangling and were already six weeks overdue from the July 1 deadline began to spew out of the legislative machine. Congress passed and sent to the White House: $6.1 billion for a score of independent Government agencies (e.g., RFC, TVA, VA), $725 million for the Department of Agriculture, $511 million for the Department of Interior, $2.5 billion for the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency...