Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller mind and lifestyle, moving G.O.P. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to comment that he had learned a lot about "the Rockefeller person." The revelations were apparently to Rocky's advantage. At the end of his first day of testimony, even his most persistent critic on the committee, West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd, said he would probably vote for confirmation "with some reservations...
...committee posts are likely to change hands, since veteran incumbents generally did well. Among the exceptions were three senior Republicans who lost: Virginia's Joel Broyhill, a conservative who blamed his defeat on Watergate, inflation and published "lies" about his extensive real estate transactions; Iowa's William J. Scherle, a more cantankerous conservative, who campaigned in khaki work pants and a farmer's cap but was outorganized in his rural district; and Tennessee's Dan Kuykendall, whose known friendship with Nixon hurt enough to bring on his narrow defeat...
...Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman, 56, of Maryland, the first woman president of the National Association of Counties; Democrat Martha Keys, 44, of Kansas, McGovern campaign coordinator for Kansas in 1972 and sister-in-law of Colorado Senator-elect Gary Hart; and Republican Virginia Smith, 63, of Nebraska, a member of the board of the American Farm Bureau...
...Fixit. He sees Simon a dozen times daily and often closes his 14-hour workday chatting with his chief over soggy pizza and a couple of fingers of Scotch. With his wife and two children, Parsky sometimes spends Sunday, his only day off, at the Simon estate in Virginia...
...sanctioned snake handling at the church so long as it did not "endanger the lives or health of persons who do not consent to exposure of such danger." That danger is still there. The week the Tennessee decision was handed down, a 28-year-old worshiper died in West Virginia from a rattlesnake bite incurred at a Pentecostal rite...