Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to hamstring the NAACP, states have passed a long series of laws which often require a considerable period of time to have repealed in the courts and which are designed specifically to hinder the NAACP. In 1956, Virginia passed laws requiring registration with a state agency of all persons promoting racial integration or legislation, and providing for an investigation of individuals or organizations contributing funds for litigation to which they are not a party. A $100,000 fine levied by an Alabama court against the Association for refusing to produce membership lists and financial records was taken for review...
...Virginia Loomis, whom Brown rejects in the first operetta and marries in the second, has a small but pretty voice. Like Lewin she has a perfect manner, and she is very pleasant to look...
Smiling, attentive, the King swiftly flipped through the Washington tourist spots dressed in djellabah. He accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree from George Washington University, visited Washington's new mosque, Bashir Ahmad, flew down to colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. At the restored Governor's Palace, a guide told the King that "as elegant as the place is, there were limited washroom facilities [in colonial times]." Confessed the King wryly: "We have the same trouble...
Desolation of the Soul. In his most ambitious story, 63: Dream Palace, he tells of two young hillbillies from West Virginia who come to bad ends in Chicago, and of their only mourners, a writer improbably named Parkhearst Cratty and a wealthy matron most commonly called "greatwoman." Again the theme is one that could be comic-the adventures of a yokel in a big city. Again, the working out is pure terror, with murder of the body and desolation of the soul at the end. Author Purdy dislikes to be considered morbid and argues that "despair in art shows concern...
...Washington's dangerously overworked National Airport. Air Force Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood P. Quesada, special White House aide for aviation, announced that he is mulling over four possible sites for a new airport. The narrowed-down list: Friendship Airport, between Washington and Baltimore, and sites near the Virginia towns of Burke. Chantilly and Pendar...