Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the high number of veterans currently enrolled in local colleges, virtually all checks should arrive by Christmas, the VA has announced. The monthly aid granted to single students is $119, while a wife and child will each add $25 to this amount...
Promptly the FBI arrested two car thieves, charging them with murder. The accused: George Junior McCoy, 34, of Grundy, Va. and Robert Carl Parker, 21, of Washington. D.C. Later, the FBI added a third inmate to its list of suspects, another car thief named Lewis Cagle, 17, of Chattanooga...
...Kiba Jr., 22, Akron, Ohio, one of eleven children of a Hungarian immigrant; Airman Harry M. Benjamin Jr., 22, of Worthington, Minn., who joined the Air Force because "I'll always have a place to sleep and plenty to eat"; Airman John W. Thompson III, 23, former Orange, Va. meatcutter; and Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, 22, of Portland, Ore., who wrote home from a Chinese prison asking whether his baby was a boy or a girl (it's a boy, now 20 months...
...York, Frank Dudley Lawrence, owner of the Portsmouth (Va.) Merri-macs. filed a $250,000 damage suit in Federal Court against Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and 16 major-league teams for violating baseball's territorial protection rule. Although the rule makes no mention of TV, Lawrence insists that televising big-league games in minor-league cities is just as bad as the forbidden practice of bringing the games themselves to town: many minor-league clubs (including the Merrimacs) are going broke because their fans prefer big-league telecasts...
...Courtship. In Roanoke, Va., Charles Lee Dickerson, 71, made up his mind at last, married Mrs. Martha Shelton, 70, whose father had frightened him into breaking off their engagement 52 years...