Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
...Approved a resolution establishing the Booker T. Washington National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April...
...that Harvard track has no friends--they are just not organized. That's why the undefeated track team must pay its own way to Quantico, Va., for the annual Marine Corps Schools Relays, April...
Kluckhohn pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Last June he was sentenced to five to ten years for the same pistol shooting on May 13 of Miss Bernice Seawell of Arlington, Va. He appealed the conviction to the North Carolina Supreme Court, which granted him a new trial because the judge's charge to the jury was found faulty...
McNeil, 4, and William Ramsey IV, 3. Because Washington is "an experience they'll always remember," the family temporarily will leave a comfortable eight-room house in Fayetteville, W. Va., for a furnished apartment in the capital while Laird is in the Senate...