Word: virginia
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...archaeology (the digging into man's past). Occasionally, as it does this week, the fascinating news in science comes under agriculture. Now quarantined in the Carolinas is a pesky parasite called Striga asiatica, or witchweed, that could cause more trouble than Asian flu and ruin crops from Virginia to Texas. See SCIENCE, Little Red Flower...
...West Virginia. The integration story came to the beginning of the end last week as the school board in the last fully segregated county changed its mind and admitted Negro applicants to a white elementary school...
Governor Hodges, 59, a Virginia sharecropper's son who became a vice president of Marshall Field & Co. before turning to politics, moved hard and fast to prevent trouble. Speaking over a statewide network of radio and television stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
According to Virginia's never-say-buy Senator Harry Byrd, Congress whacked $6.5 billion off Ike's original spending-authority request of $73.3 billion. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson put the total at $5.9 billion. By the House Appropriations Committee's reckoning, it came to $4.9 billion. At his press conference, the President dismissed all these claims as "political." Congress' cuts, he said, "really" amounted to something "on the order of 900 million to a billion." The President's source for this surprising figure was his own Budget Bureau, which arrived...
...throwing out the SEC suit, Judge Wilkin may have helped to melt some of the solid opposition to variable annuities in most states. Only Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and the District of Columbia have so far licensed home-based companies to sell the policies. With the precedent of a court decision, state insurance commissioners may well regard the variable annuity with a kindlier eye. Meanwhile, the two victorious District of Columbia companies, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. and Equity Annuity Life Insurance Co., plan to step up their selling campaigns...