Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the state of Virginia, an icy wind blew. Freezing rain fell in the north, and there was snow in the mountains of the southwest. But last week Virginians trooped to the polls in force to chalk up a vote second only to the state record set in the 1952 presidential election. By a majority of two to one, they called for a special convention to amend their constitution and circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in the schools...
Whose Constitution? Though the Gray plan may eventually be knocked down in court, Virginia showed every indication that it would continue the fight. "We are in for a long-drawn-out struggle," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "and may have to shift strategy from time to time." But whatever strategy the South uses, it has now confronted the country with a major legal issue. Is the U.S. Constitution, as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes put it, "what the judges say it is"? Or is it what it was when the states first ratified it in the generally accepted belief that...
...Condition Intolerable. In Alabama, the Montgomery Advertiser called the Virginia vote a "thunderous revolt." In the Birmingham Post-Herald, Columnist John Temple Graves went into historical ecstasies. "Virginia," said he, "with names for every chapter of American history . . . Virginia, where America's history and philosophy were born . . . Surely this stern and determined gesture from the South gives pause to those who would impose on our people a condition intolerable to them and unknown to the Constitution...
...Wheeler Professor of Applied Astronomy, and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, are now in Washington meeting on the National Science Foundation's advisory panel on radio astronomy. They are discussing details of the project and considering six possible sites in the Appalachians, from the southeast corner of West Virginia through to the western portion of the Carolinas. This area is especially suitable because of its freedom from radio and television interference...
Artifice & Nature. Virginia's new Watteau dates from the period when he had first found his own formula for combining artifice with nature. For it was not in the mincing, grandiloquent French courtiers that Watteau found his prototypes but from among the mocking, high-spirited, slapstick players of the Italian Commedia dell'Arte. By placing them against the superb park landscapes he sketched in and around Paris, Watteau created a half-make-believe world of his own that paid homage to nothing but his own poetic imagination...