Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILLIAM M. BURDETTE JR. Arlington, Va...
LABAN LACY RICE Ware Neck, Va...
Political Career: Twelve weeks after V-J day, Marshall retired to Leesburg, Va., but was just unpacking his automobile when Harry Truman, who considers him the "greatest living American," asked him to go to China as a special representative, with the rank of ambassador. His mission: to unify the Nationalists and Communists. The mission failed; Marshall returned to the U.S. Jan. 19, 1947, was appointed Secretary of State and confirmed unanimously by the Senate within an hour. Best-known action as Secretary: the Marshall Plan. Resigned after two years because of illness. Summoned from retirement a second time on Sept...
...twelve years, over Princeton, Cornell and Syracuse; at Ithaca, N.Y. CJ The Harvard crew, the Adams Cup, for the tenth straight time, over Navy and Pennsylvania; at Philadelphia. ¶ Sam Snead, with a 17-under-par 263, the $10,000 Greenbrier Open Golf tournament; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. ¶ Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County Delight, the $69,600 Gallant Fox Handicap, in a four-horse photofinish over Palestinian, Greek...
...Leigh Ribble was disturbed. His Grace and Holy Trinity Church in midtown Richmond, Va. seemed to be doing well; its generally well-off Episcopal parishioners were better-than-average churchgoers and they were raising their children to be credits to the community. But earnest Rector Ribble, 48, who also edits the weekly Southern Churchman, had a growing sense that between him and his congregation there were "barriers of language, of plain ignorance and of lack of conviction...