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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Lamar came to Cambridge, he was a ranking world heavyweight, with a 38-1 professional record. He had started boxing in high school in Virginia, "just to have something to do between football and basketball seasons," and boxed throughout his college days at the University of Virginia, from which he graduated...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert and Mark R. Rasmuson, S | Title: Intramural Meet Recalls Glory Of the Ghosts of Boxing's Past | 3/4/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson Key Society has elected its new officers for 1969-70. President, Edward W. Jones of Kirkland House and Dahlgren, Virginia; VicePresident, Thomas R. Johnston of Dunster House and Schenectady, New York, Treasurer, James W. Sullivan of Winthrop House and Bronxville, New York; Chairman of Freshman Orientation Committee, Joseph J. Thaler of Quincy House and Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Chairman of Schools Committee, Mark T. Stein of Leverett House and Nashville, Tenn.; Chairman of University Guides Committee, Bradley P. Ware, of Eliot House and Buffalo, New York; and Chairman of Athletic Committee, Kirkman K. Dolby of Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Key | 3/1/1969 | See Source »

...conceptions and staff meetings riding along with me, on June 6 I left Washington, D.C. in a '63 grey Volks heading for Magnolia, Arkansas. It was my first trip south of Richmond, Virginia; Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana were to be home for the next three months. The first leg of the trip was to be a quick tour of the entire region with stops at each of the six Upward Bound Projects in my region. The quick first tour was to see to what extent the Project Directors were interested in participating with us, and more important, how many...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: FOCUS in Perspective: Between Shadow and Act | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

Ample Incentive. Both the airlines and the military have long been anxious to fly faster in their subsonic jets. So there was ample incentive four years ago for Whitcomb and a team of NASA engineers at the Langley Research Center in Virginia to turn from the investigation of supersonic wing design to the problem of subsonic turbulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Upside-Down Wing | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...adult, Portnoy makes his most strenuous escape attempt with the aid of the Monkey, a hypererotic fashion model from the impoverished hills of West Virginia who is the fulfillment of Portnoy's steamiest adolescent sex fantasies. The Monkey business ends in a frenzied bedroom burlesque in Rome, made the merrier by the participation of an Italian prostitute. Comments Portnoy: "I can best describe the state I sub sequently entered as one of unrelieved busy-ness." But instead of solving his problem, the Monkey is just another source of shame. She wants Alex's social respectability while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sex Novel of the Absurd | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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