Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even a whole different set of reporters was brought in for the tournament. The regular Virginia Slims Circuit press from World Tennis and Tennis U.S.A. not to mention Bud Collins, the dean of tennis writers, stood apart from the loud, cigar-chomping sportswriters from The Boston Globe and The Herald-American...
With times bad and getting worse, the administrators of Virginia's Arlington County proposed a bare-bones austerity budget for fiscal 1976. The trash-collection service would be curtailed and school expenditures slashed by $2 million. Transit fares would go up, and more parking meters would be installed. It was an unpalatable offering, so the budgeteers quite naturally began looking for a symbol to help sell the package to the public as well as to the county board, the body that must give final approval...
...spread in Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs were Frank Sinatra, escorting longtime Companion Barbara Marx; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone and his wife Barbara; Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and his wife Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos of Amos 'n' Andy) and his wife Jane. Comedian Bob Hope arrived at the wheel of a station wagon with Wife Dolores. Notably absent: Spiro T. Agnew, who was ensconced near by as a house guest of Sinatra...
...court went a step further and ruled that a school board official may now be held liable for damages if "he knew or reasonably should have known that the action he took ... would violate the constitutional rights of the student affected." As he had in the earlier case, former Virginia School Board Member Lewis Powell spoke for the dissenting Justices and worried whether, in light of the decision, "qualified persons will continue ... to volunteer for service in public education." But the majority felt that qualified officials are well aware of students' rights and should act with the fairness called...
...youthful burlesques, it seemed to project something both ambitious and new. When it was finally published in 1925 under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic and economic force." Virginia Woolf said that if completed, Sanditon would have shown Austen to be a forerunner of Henry James and Proust...