Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accumulated?a mountain of some 1,600 pages, over 50 percent more than the amount filed by our correspondents for a regular issue?a dozen writers were assigned to apply, figuratively, their quill pens. Scholarly judgment and historical guidance were provided by Robert A. Rutland of the University of Virginia, editor of the Madison papers...
...bill faces formidable legislative hurdles. Indeed, three Senators who voted to send the measure to the floor, Democratic Whip Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland, are avowed opponents of divestiture. They merely wanted to bring the issue up for a full-scale debate in the Senate, which last October rejected a similar proposal by a surprisingly close vote of 54 to 45. The bill's fate is also uncertain in the House, which has not yet even held committee hearings on the matter...
Students interviewed yesterday expressed both excitement and confidence that the 29th session would live up to its predecessors. As Winthrop Watson, a University of Virginia graduate, up from Greensborough, North Carolina, said shortly after arriving here. "There are three real attractions to the course: One, it's the only publishing course in the country. Secondly, there are good people from publishing involved. And thirdly, people get jobs. But," he adds, "they are not necessarily ranked in that order...
...them. In this case, the President's views may not stand up in court-at least if his Justice Department's arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court prevail. Among the cases still on the Supreme Court's docket is an appeal from a decision against two Virginia private schools that refuse to accept black students. Two federal courts have already ruled against the schools (and Ford's position) on 13th Amendment grounds. If the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of the lower courts, a new legal frontier in racial discrimination will have been established...
...question, and he gave a standard 14th Amendment answer." By that he meant that until now most discrimination cases, conditional upon some governmental action, have been decided on the 14th Amendment due process and equal protection clauses, rather than on 13th Amendment grounds. The decision in the Virginia cases, when it comes, is likely to be a landmark, since, particularly in the South, segregated private schools have burgeoned as a response to the increasing desegregation of public schools...