Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each year, as Congress winds up its work, West Virginia's Bible-quoting Senator Matthew Neely denounces what he calls "the scourge of senatorial verbosity." Last week aging Democrat Neely came out from behind the three-foot piles of Congressional Records on his Senate desk and reported that in 155 days this year, Congress had filled 21,484 pages with an estimated 31,946,708 words at a printing cost of $1,842,140. Ten Senators (unnamed) had supplied half the words...
...Born in Virginia and reared in Boston, Snowden knows Italy well. He studied there in 1938 as a Rosenwald fellow, and in 1949-50 as a Fulbright scholar. In 1953, as a lecturer for the State Department's International Information Administration, he told Italian audiences, in fluent Italian, about the improving lot of the Negroes in the U.S. From Rome, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce notified Washington that Snowden's tour of Italy was "a very great success" and subsequently recommended him for the attache post. Remarked an Italian newspaperman last week: "This is the only kind of propaganda...
Thomas Jefferson's fine old University of Virginia is a state-run institution, but it has long maintained the flavor of a small, exclusive private college. Traditionally, it has drawn more big wheels from prep schools than public schools, has been the happy hunting ground for sons of the F.F.V.s (First Families of Virginia) and members of the F.F.U. (First Fraternities of the University). But in recent years the gentleman's-club tradition has found itself challenged by a serious-minded administration and by a more down-to-earth sector of the student body. Last spring the campus...
...Constellations), the protective net stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...
...Besides Arkansas, they are: St. Louis University, Medical College of Virginia, Washington University (St. Louis), and the Universities of Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, Missouri and Louisville...