Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the President. I don't think it's isolationism to oppose excessive military spending." Some Democratic Senators were more abrupt. Said Albert Gore of Tennessee: "It sounded like the old Nixon I used to know." But Nixon won support from Louisiana's Russell Long and Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. Noted Byrd: "I think he said some things which needed to be said...
...state to be carved out of one al ready in existence requires approval of both the old state legislature and the U.S. Con gress. New states have been created from the territory of older states before. For example, in 1792, Kentucky and was West formed from Virginia - part also of from part Virginia of Virginia - in 1863. Mailer proposes that the first step, following his election, should be a city-wide referendum on the question of statehood for the city...
...West Virginia went to the other extreme by enacting what may be the most sweeping antiriot law in the country. The new law, which went into effeet last week, empowers state troopers, sheriffs or mayors to invoke riot-control procedures, bypassing the old requirement that a judge or justice of the peace must declare that a civil disturbance is a riot. Law officers can deem anyone a rioter who fails to obey a lawful order or provide requested assistance. The police are free to deputize onlookers, who will automatically be guiltless if any person present is subsequently killed or wounded...
Another AWOL soldier took campus refuge. Jack O'Connor, who said he was AWOL from a Virginia Army base, set up a sanctuary in the M.I.T. student center building...
...Virginia Woolf once wrote that after reading certain novels she felt as if she were expected to write out a check. Such sermonettes, with their demand for moral reparations for evil deeds of the past, infest the modern theater. If one were really to believe Hochhuth (The Deputy), Weiss (The Investigation) and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy), one would conclude that the playgoer is responsible for every human crime and flaw since Adam ate the apple. The latest playwright to join this tiresome mea culpa crew is Arthur Kopit. His play Indians argues that Americans were once beastly...