Word: virginia
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Nixon has always conceded Wallace Mississippi, Louisiana and, of course, Alabama. He gave up Georgia some time ago. Now he is seriously concerned about his chances against Wallace in Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee and North and South Carolina. Kentucky and Virginia, once considered promising for the G.O P., are less than firm. No one in either of the major parties gives Wallace even an outside chance of carrying any state outside the South...
...Democrats formally adopted their present title in 1840 after being known as the Democratic-Republican Party. The organization actually goes back to the Virginia-New York axis formed before 1800 by Jefferson, Burr, Madison and Monroe...
...Round Athlete. In Purdue's opening game against Virginia this season, Keyes blasted his 205 lbs. through a wall of tacklers to score from 3 yds. out in the second quarter, then lofted a 12-yd. touchdown pass to End Bob Dillingham in the third period to lead Purdue to a 44-6 victory. Next week it was Notre Dame, ranked No. 1 and aching to avenge last year's 28-21 upset by Keyes & Co. Not a chance. In the second quarter, Keyes took a pitchout on the Irish 16, faked to the inside...
...prevailing myth, that it will not permit a playwright the creative right to fail. To judge by its seasonal multimillion-dollar losses, Broadway is about as uncommercial an enterprise as can be imagined, and the right to fail is honored more often than not. Ever since the success of Virginia Woolf in 1962, Edward Albee has exercised this right annually. Tiny Alice, The Ballad of the Sad Café, A Delicate Balance, Malcolm, Everything in the Garden, and now Box and Quotations from Mao Tse-tung represent the alarming deterioration of a formidable talent...
...brush would strike next. The instrument they had to fear was the shovel. In Manhattan's Dwan Gallery, the newest frontier is called "Earthworks," and the ingredients on display include dirt, worms, rocks, photographs and written descriptions. "Our original idea," explains the gallery's earth mother, Virginia Dwan, "was just to show earth as a medium, but it's difficult to know where to draw the line...