Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Starter. In Fauquier County, Va., Irving Hanback published a legal notice in the Fauquier Democrat: "I will not be responsible for any more charge accounts made by me or my wife...
...Hudson, Ohio 75 Hoover, John S. '61 T 19 6.2 205 Altoona, Pa. 76 Glasheen, John D. '59 T 21 6.1 220 N. Hampton, Mass. 77 McNeish, Peter F. '59 T 21 5.11 210 Pittsburgh, Pa. 78 Lawler, Edward E. '60 T 20 6.3 215 Alexandria, Va. 79 Budrewicz, Thomas '60 T 19 6.2 220 Greenfield, Mass. 80 Olobri, Charles L. '60 E 21 6.1 190 Pawtucket, R.I. 81 Gundlach, Louis T. '59 E 21 6.1 190 Bronx, N.Y. 82 Cronin, John W. '59 E 21 6.0 175 Providence, R.I. 84 Judkins, Richard F. '59 E 21 6.0 185 Worcester...
This odd contrast of styles has a crippling effect on Salamanca's torrential first novel, which carries Jim Blackstarr from his fourth to his 17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...
...jets, nuclear submarines, atomic bombs, missiles and electronic computers, science and military planners have been painfully slow coming to the rescue of the foot soldier. But last fortnight the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Va. displayed an arsenal of new gear designed to give the well-armed G.I. more mobility, independence of action and firepower in the next war. Items...
...economy, as measured by the gross national product, has climbed almost back to its alltime high. So Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council last week at Hot Springs, Va. On top of the fact that the gross national product rate in July-September apparently was around $440 billion, v. the recession's low of $425.8 billion in January-March, Weeks predicted that the final-quarter G.N.P. rate will hit $450 billion, v. the prerecession peak of $445.6 billion in the summer of 1957-and go even higher...