Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potomac Railroad to become president and chief executive of the big (5,287-mile) Atlantic Coast Line, succeeding Champion McDowell Davis, 77, who is retiring as one of the industry's senior executives after 64 years of service. A railroader ever since he won his B.S. degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1934, President Rice got his start as a $155-a-month assistant engineer on the Pennsylvania, moved up to track superintendent by 1942, when he was called to active duty in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in a railway battalion and later (as a lieutenant...
Divorced. By Denholm Elliott, 35, British actor of screen (The Heart of the Matter, The Cruel Sea) and stage (Broadway's Ring Round the Moon): Virginia McKenna. 26, blonde British cinemactress (The Cruel Sea, The Barretts of Wimpole Street); after three years of marriage, no children; in an uncontested action, on grounds of adultery with strapping Cinemactor Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers; in London...
...Forgotten Man. Martin's strategy was simple. Aware that Virginia's Howard Smith and his hundred sympathizers were driving for quick consideration of the amendment before emotion wore off, Martin forced a delay. The extra time not only allowed him to win back some doubting Republicans but stretched the Southern arguments too thin. Virginia's Smith could only send in additional orators to rehash the same old points. The atmosphere in the air-conditioned chamber gradually changed from interest to boredom to sweltering bitterness...
...Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin...
...Plymouth Rock, the ship would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from the U.S. and 17 foreign lands, charged trickery on the high seas. Huffed a Jamestown publicist...