Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Localized to an industrial area of the U.S., the AEC's estimates would mean that a Bikini-sized H-bomb dropped on Cleveland with the wind northwest could level the city, threaten the life of everyone in Pittsburgh, and spread lethal ash across a strip of West Virginia, into Virginia and Maryland (see map). If the wind were stronger than it was at the time of the Bikini test, the fatal fallout from a Cleveland bomb could reach all the way to Washington...
...best in ten years. Judge Vanderbilt notes that although some jurisdictions have made great improvements in the last two decades, in others the judges are substandard, procedures are unnecessarily complex, and court administration is inefficient. In a brilliant series of lectures at the University of Virginia, to be published in book form later this year, Judge Vanderbilt says: "It is in the courts and not in the legislature that our citizens primarily feel the keen, cutting edge of the law. If they have respect for the work of the courts as it affects them, their respect for law will survive...
Died. Rush Dew Holt. 49, politically erratic onetime (1935-41 ) wonder-boy U.S. Senator from West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican...
...name on everything from ice cream to paper boxes, in Canada, India. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., three Weston firms operate a chain of seven plants from Passaic. N.J. to Tacoma. Wash., making biscuits marketed under three names, including its popular F.F.V. (Famous Food of Virginia) label...
...jest." It was highly secret. Near the end of the day, Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noticed a stenotypist at work. Witness Radford flushed darkly, said that if he had known any record was being made, his answers would have been far different. Virginia's veteran Democratic Senator Harry Byrd suggested that the transcript be burned. It wasn...