Word: virginia
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Over much of Virginia, if we read yesterday's election returns correctly, the issue of school integration no longer is the flaming fire that once threatened to consume this Old Dominion. Yesterday was Moderation...
...round numbers, Almond's new coalition of moderates netted only two additional senate seats, lost about three house seats. But by a peculiar gentlemen's understanding of gentlemanly Virginia politics, the segregation-moderation issue was sharply tested in three critical senate seats that the opposition tried to take by every trick in white supremacy's bag. Almond-backing moderates won them so handily that the diehards could hardly believe the vote ("Good God! Are you sure...
...test came in the just-integrated Washington suburb of Alexandria (pop. 62,000). where Lawyer Armistead L. Boothe, 51, Virginia-born and Oxford-educated, held his senate seat against the combined forces of Virginia-style citizens' councils and all that the Byrd forces could throw against him. Byrd and Son Harry Jr., 44-year-old state senator, personally made calls and wrote letters for the candidacy of their cousin, Marshall J. Beverley, whose savage (for Virginia) campaign was managed by Harry Jr.'s brother-in-law, James M. Thomson. Almond maintained the fiction that he was not involved...
...Sacramento to see Warren's eyes!'" The esthetic quarrel will be resolved with Booth collecting his money for a canvas probably destined for indefinite storage in the basement of San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor. Cried Knight's wife Virginia: "Goodie looks so thin." Snapped Booth: "It was a fiasco." Said Goodie Knignt: "To hell with...
Jaguars & Joining. Known among Missouri newsmen as "a nice guy with a tremendous capacity for work," crewcut, wiry (6 ft. 1 in., 168 Ibs.) Bob White was born in Mexico, Mo., went to the local Missouri Military Academy, then on to Virginia's Washington and Lee University, where he played halfback on the football team. A sometime freelance writer and U.P. correspondent in Kansas City, he served on the wartime staffs of Generals MacArthur and Eichelberger, got a Bronze Star, wound up as a major stationed in the White House on War Department public relations duty...