Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Island colony mysteriously disappeared some time between 1587 and 1590, the message CROATOAN was found carved on a tree. The"lost colony," some experts believe, joined the Croatan Indians. Among them: Virginia Dare...
George Docking, the genial, 53-year-old governor of Kansas, and his wife Virginia had just finished a rousing round of duplicate bridge and a lively tournament post-mortem of the play over coffee and ice cream in the Hotel Kansan snackshop, the Purple Cow. It was past midnight in Topeka as Democrat Docking paid the bill, escorted Virginia to his state-owned Cadillac outside, helped her into the car, slid into the driver's seat and purred off into the night...
...governor was in a purring mood-and the fact that he and Virginia had won third prize at bridge ($2) had almost nothing to do with it. As Kansas' first Democratic governor in 20 years, George Docking has been winning most of his contracts from Kansas Republicans since he took office last year. Last week he dealt put a fresh hand that may well keep him in the governor's chair for another term. The slam bid in this case: a budget so carefully conceived and publicized that the Republicans might as well be against motherhood as oppose...
...result of an 18-month survey led by Dean Eston K; Feaster of West Virginia University's College of Education, the report gave West Virginia (pop. 1,900,000) little cause for pride. Even taking into consideration the shocking fact that the state's pupils rank five points below the national average in IQ, youngsters still do not begin to accomplish all they could. In scholastic achievement, ninth-graders are nearly two years behind the national norm. Third-graders lag by half a year, sixth-graders by a year and a quarter, twelfth-graders by nine-tenths...
...tone of the accusation and of the teachers' elaboration on it was one of resignation to fate, of washing their hands of responsibility . . . Until teachers become imbued with the attitude that pupil deficiencies in minimum essentials are the unfinished business of every teacher, the situation in West Virginia will grow progressively worse...