Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday, July 8, more politicians and energy specialists: Energy Secretary James Schlesinger; Governors Hugh Gallenof New Hampshire, Robert Graham of Florida and John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia; Representative Corinne...
...SALT hearings got under way last week, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd was briefing his colleagues on the results of his visit to the U.S.S.R. and his surprisingly candid talk with Leonid Brezhnev. The West Virginia Democrat returned with some new ideas about how the Soviets might respond to the questions the Senate has been raising about the arms accord...
...bedroom East Side Manhattan apartment that cost $50,000 four years ago now goes for $225,000. A modest brownstone in Brooklyn costs $130,000. Fifty-year-old houses in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood of wood-frame bungalows have doubled from $30,000 in 1976 to $60,000. A one-bedroom condo in Boston's scruffy South End costs up to $60,000. Says Ann Wallace, 31, who was looking to buy in the supposedly inexpensive area of south-central Los Angeles: "What we figured would sell for $40,000 is selling for $60,000. What...
...Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin have accepted the practice. Alaska, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia are now experimenting...
Edel uses a novelist's skill to keep all this straight - if straight is the word. Strachey's Eminent Victorians, he notes, was written "in a new kind of ink - the ink of Vienna, of Sigmund Freud." Edel's portrait of Virginia Woolf includes a pow erful analysis of the roots of her art and madness. She was haunted by deaths in her family (symbolized by a horrible animal face that once appeared when she looked in a mirror) and sexually traumatized by her halfbrothers' childhood groping. At the same time, her identification with her dead...