Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large Virginia home was dark at 9:30 p.m., and Ted Kennedy, in a denim shirt and slacks, sat alone in the high-ceilinged library. He looked ruddy, handsome and, with his thick legs and arms, somewhat burly. The house was totally silent. In front of him on the glass table was his attache case, opened up and spilling over with business. Earlier in the day, as he left the office, one of his closest aides had wondered aloud if the Senator ever got lonely; it seemed an odd question about a man so constantly surrounded by people, so constantly...
...days later, after telephone calls from Carter on three successive Sundays, Senator Thomas Eagleton and 33 other party leaders from Missouri pledged their allegiance, assuring Carter of ultimately getting at least 50 of the state's 71 delegates. Carter also won the support of Democratic leaders in Virginia, giving him 40 of the state's 54 delegates. Many other party veterans were on the verge of supporting him. But they held back to wait a bit after Morris Udall ran an unexpectedly close second to him in Connecticut, 33-31%, and Frank Church knocked a few spokes from...
...selling 400,000 shares in his Sea Pines Co. at $ 18 a share, while embarking on a series of other projects. The most important by far was Palmas Del Mar, a 2,800-acre playground in Puerto Rico, but he also started similar developments in Florida and Virginia and planned a 6,000-acre "private national park" in the wilderness of western North Carolina...
...Harvard, to lovers, to grandmothers, to the question "what's hapnin." There are two tightly-constructed and vivid short stories, as well as an eloquent review of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. There is even a short play about the emotions preceding a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800, the prologue of which affirms passionately, emphatically "freedom's all I'll ever need...
Others receiving the awards at the university's 375th commencement included Elizabeth Drew, journalist; William G. Milliken, governor of Michigan; Jesse W. Beams, professor of Physics emeritus at the University of Virginia; William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation; and Franklin S. Cooper, associate director of research at Haskins Laboratories...