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...taste of what lies ahead. Gasoline lines, which once seemed a temporary California phenomenon, were snaking through the suburbs of Washington and streets of Manhattan, and by last week had spread all up and down the Eastern seaboard. Seven states?Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia???and the District of Columbia had to begin odd-even allocation. Independent truckers, who charge that rising fuel prices are depriving them of a livelihood, started a strike that soon led to food shortages, scattered violence and threats of worse to come. Although the Department of Energy had contributed...
Although it is conceivable that Reagan could carry North Carolina and Virginia???and possibly Mississippi and Texas ?against Carter, it is by no means certain. Should he also carry California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Indiana, South Dakota and Nebraska, in all of which he has strong but by no means unchallengeable strength, he would still be 117 electoral votes short of winning. He would be forced to make up some of that deficit in the electoral-vote-rich Northern and Midwestern industrial states, where his appeal seems weakest...
White and black Virginia???home of states' rights, the Byrd machine and massive resistance to integration?wondered if the ruddy, ebullient Holton really meant what he said. He did. After 16 months in office, he is justly proud of his efforts to eliminate racial discrimination. He appointed the first black special assistant to serve in the Virginia Governor's office, Educator William Robertson, who has been working effectively to increase opportunities for blacks in both public and private employment. The Governor nominated Ernest Fears Jr. to the post of Selective Service director, the first black in the nation to head...
...Kennedy circle. At Bobby's behest, Ethel threw herself with abandon into older brother Jack's 1946 campaign for a House seat from Massachusetts. The year after her graduation from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1949, Ethel and Bobby?then a law student at the University of Virginia???were married in Greenwich, with Representative John F. Kennedy (D., Mass.) as best...
...recurrent phrases "watch the drivers roll," exactly like the wording of the song "Vanderbilt's Daughter" written in Virginia???if I recollect correctly many years earlier? strongly indicate that either Newton & Seiberg drew chiefly on the older song rather than on any origination of Saunders, or that Saunders merely applied new names and a few facts to the older song as he had heard...