Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered the Veterans Administration to pay for home treatment of Albert Woolson, 108, in order to spare him the 165-mile trip from his Duluth home to the nearest VA hospital. Woolson, at 17 a drummer boy in Minnesota's 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, is the Union Army's lone Civil War survivor...
...Socialism. A third-generation Socialist born in Wheeling, W. Va., Walter Philip Reuther was bred to worship God and to translate brotherhood into Socialist terms. His grandfather Jacob was a German Social Democrat who emigrated to the U.S. in 1892 to save his sons from military service. Jacob Reuther, a white-bearded Lutheran patriarch, often conducted Sunday services for his family at his farmhouse near Effingham, Ill. He felt that some churches "do too much for God and not enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible...
...band of solid Southerners who have already abandoned the old devices and clichés and are prepared to fight until doomsday with legal weapons to maintain segregation in their public schools. The day after last week's Supreme Court opinion, an editorial in the influential Richmond (Va.) News Leader made clear the nature of this opposition. Excerpts...
...DOOLEY Norfolk, Va...
What started the ape men walking on their hind legs? Dr. Britton installed a female chimp named Bonga on a small island in a lake at Charlottesville, Va. Bonga could not swim and therefore had to make the best of it, even though the Virginia winter soon brought snow. When there was snow on the ground, Bonga walked upright, apparently to keep her hands and belly from getting cold...