Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can beat poor old Gene Debs, because he is dead and buried. But," cried Johnson, "they can't beat unemployment, they can't beat sickness and disease, and they can't beat Khrushchev by resurrecting a dead man-and a dead issue-and kicking him around...
...indicted for the act are all vehement anti-Semites. These five are local fanatics backed by an Arlington, Virginia printer who publishes reams of hate literature under the name of the National Committee to Free America From Jewish Domination...
...bright leaves of New England autumn crackled crisply underfoot as hunters in Maine and Vermont took to the woods and meadows in search of rabbit and pheasant. In Wisconsin and Oregon the hunt was on for grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation...
...building, set squarely behind its own private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew it or not, their new building was the finest bit of architecture to be erected in Virginia since Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia...
Final test for Director Cheek came when a black-tie cross section of Virginia's first families turned up at the museum, inspected models of other Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings (Lever House, U.S. Air Force Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found...