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Nine of the intelligence committee's 10 Democrats voted against the proposal, with only Rep. Dan Daniel (D-Va.) joining with the Republicans. Despite the committee's opposition, however, the request for $70 million military aid and $30 million logistical aid must still go to the House floor...
...Wade Morrison worked as a pharmacist at a drugstore in Rural Retreat, Va. He fell in love with the daughter of the store's proprietor, Charles Pepper, who was a physician. When the doctor discovered the romance, he put a halt to it. Morrison then fled to Waco, Texas, where he opened his own drugstore. It was there that Charles Alderton, who worked for Morrison, invented a tasty soft drink made from 23 flavors. Morrison, apparently still hoping to curry favor with his beloved's father, named the new pop Dr Pepper. It become one of the most popular thirst...
...College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, has established the Eddie Murphy scholarship endowment, which will provide financial aid of between $500 and $1000 to minority students from the greater New York area, the campus newspaper reported...
...headquarters in Virginia Beach, Va., consists of three massive white pillared buildings where some 4,000 Roberston employees work amid strict security (for example: coded cards to unlock doors). The buildings house not only studios but CBN University, which enrolls 715 graduate students and is adding a law school acquired free from Oral Roberts University...
...longtime U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Pat grew up in Lexington, Va., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from hometown Washington and Lee University. After a hitch as a Marine combat officer in Korea, he graduated from the Yale Law School, flunked the New York bar exam and was a partner in a small business. Then at age 26 he had a conversion experience ("At my desk in my office, I leaned back in my chair and burst out laughing . . . I had passed from death into life") and entered the Biblical Seminary in New York City...