Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feature of the week's elections was that (except in segregation-conscious Virginia) there were no solid issues. The campaigns generally were fought and won on the basis of personality. One additional worry for the G.O.P. next year: it is shy on good, attractive candidates...
...Virginia, although the Republicans had high hopes until Little Rock, GOP gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton received almost a tenth less votes than he did in 1953. The Virginia election serves as an indication of the degree to which the South has rejected its seemingly growing Republican sentiments because of Little Rock. There are only five Republican Southerners in the House, and while the GOP may lose some of these seats, it stands little chance of making any gains in the South...
...Ohio State's Rose Bowl express just managed to stay on schedule when the Buckeyes booted a third-period field goal to stop Wisconsin, 16-13. Army's Dave Bourland waited until the final minutes before he found the range and fired two passes that topped Virginia...
Ties That Bind. Responded Queen Elizabeth: "In Virginia, I was reminded of the early beginnings of the U.S. and of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Here in Washington, so often a focus for the aspirations of the free world, our thoughts turn naturally to the future. The Jamestown Festival commemorates an age of discovery and exploration. There are many indications today that we are at the beginning of a new age of discovery and exploration in the world of human knowledge and technology. Only a short time ago these unexplored areas of human knowledge seemed as impenetrable as the forests...
Hoffman noted that the same session of the Virginia General Assembly which passed that law also passed laws calling for the closing of schools and the withdrawal of state funds from any school departing from the policy of no integration...