Word: virgination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much-maligned, outspoken, picaresque hero, John Cricket, attempts to deceive anyone and everyone, including, at the time of his last judgement, Satan, God and the Virgin Mary. "Necessity is an excuse for anything," he says, expressing the general morality of the play...
...Virgin Spring...
LAURANCE S. ROCKEFELLER, 63, often called "America's Mr. Conservation." The third son of John D. Jr., he has given family land outright to the U.S. (33,500 acres to Grand Teton National Park, 5,000 acres to the Virgin Islands National Park); Rockefeller-started resorts in St. John, Puerto Rico and Hawaii pay for maintaining surrounding areas of unspoiled natural beauty. Laurance Rockefeller serves on state and federal commissions, including recent task force on land use and urban growth. His philosophy: "Land-use planning is essential to environmental quality and good urban growth, and to this...
...Your report concerning crime in the Virgin Islands [Aug. 27] attempts to define it in these terms: "A homicide rate higher than that of New York City...
...while you are factually correct when you say that the Virgin Islands has "a homicide rate higher than that of New York City," it is gratuitous and unfair to cite New York for that tragic comparison. The fact is that among the nation's major cities, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phila delphia all have 1973 homicide rates higher than New York...