Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, Ford told his audience of Republicans that he hoped to visit every state by the end of 1975. When he arrived back in Washington he had eleven still to go-Alabama, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming...
...Virginia, the World Series is not the only sporting event taking place in these parts today. Five Harvard varsity squads will be taking on various collegiate opponents, in the busiest weekend of the spring to date...
...fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that if a nuclear attack came, he was not about to leave the White House or his family. He might go up in the fireball, but his pride would be intact; and the nation's survivors would...
...mail of many people not on the list was also scrutinized. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Edward Kennedy, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Martin Luther King, his widow Coretta and Jay Rockefeller, a likely Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia. Church had a personal quarrel with the CIA because it had opened a letter that he wrote to his mother-in-law in Boise, Idaho, while he was touring Russia in 1971. Also routinely monitored was mail to or from Harvard University and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations...
...Force, which with equal determination has been trying to oust him. Last week Matlovich (TIME cover, Sept. 8) lost the first round of the battle that he has vowed to take to the U.S. Supreme Court if need be. A three-man board of Air Force officers at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base voted unanimously after a hearing to recommend that Matlovich be separated from the Air Force with a general (less than honorable) discharge. In reaching its decision, the panel was asked by the presiding officer to consider only two questions: 1) whether Matlovich's homosexuality...