Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Robert's death, Ted Kennedy moved out of the seclusion of his Massachusetts and Washington bailiwicks. His journey took him to Morgantown, W. Va., where he dedicated a federal rehabilitation center for errant youth named in Bobby's honor. Recalling the 1960 primary campaign in West Virginia that confirmed Jack Kennedy's position as front runner, and Bobby's own campaign there last spring, Ted was momentarily husky-voiced. "These hills, these people, this state have had a very special meaning for my family," he said. "You have taught us the lessons of fortitude...
...South Carolina Baptist Convention voted to allow Charleston's Baptist College to negotiate for $2.5 million in federal loans to construct a library and a dormitory. Virginia's Baptist leaders decided to let the trustees of individual institutions determine whether or not to take Government grants. At Fort Worth, delegates to the Baptist General Convention of Texas voted 2,960 to 40 to cut its official ties with the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose was to let the school-which has Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey on its faculty-receive state and federal grants...
...Washington, B.C., unconstitutional. Though he won on the main point, Kunstler could not get the judge to agree to a more radical proposal. He asked that the court order the Government to force a merger of schools in Washington with those in the white suburbs of Maryland and Virginia...
...differ on details. No, say the surgeons emphatically, the beginning of transplants was not premature. The surgical technique had been worked out years earlier, in animals, by Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., with Dr. Richard R. Lower, who is now at the Medical College of Virginia. Both Shumway and Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz had their scalpels poised when South Africa...
...writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...