Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their mission to Washington, a dozen parents and ministers tried to persuade federal officials to cut off school funds to West Virginia unless the books are banned. After meeting with them for two hours, Roger Senerad, a White House aide for education and labor, said he would try "to help find a constructive compromise for this situation...
...three Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee-Robert F. Drinan of Massachusetts, Don Edwards of California and Charles B. Rangel of New York-said that their doubts about Rockefeller had deepened. So, too, had the misgivings of some Republican conservatives. Senator William L. Scott, a conservative Republican from Virginia, called on Rockefeller to withdraw. Some conservatives hold a grudge for his refusal to back Senator Barry Goldwater for President in 1964; some liberals blame him in part for the deaths of 32 prisoners and eleven hostages during the 1971 revolt at New York's Attica Prison. It seemed possible...
Some large architectural firms have slashed their staffs by 70%. Says Atlanta Architect John Portman: "I think there are more architects out of work now than at any other time since the Depression." That goes for real estate brokers too. Complains James Williams, head of a Virginia construction company's sales staff: "The customers do not even come around to look any more...
...Clarence Mearson, 44, a supervisor with an electronics firm, wants to move his wife and four children out of the two-bedroom, $14,900 mobile home that they have owned near Dulles Airport in Virginia for just over a year. Mearson has his eye on a handsome, $64,000 town house, and he has even saved enough for a down payment. But now he finds that inflation has driven the monthly carrying costs way beyond the limits of his budget. "I can't afford to pay those interest rates, and you can't sell anything any more...
...West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, when asked about the financing of the Goldberg book, said it was "reminiscent of the dirty tricks of the Nixon era." Rocky contends unconvincingly that he had known nothing about his brother's investment in the book until FBI agents raised questions about it during their confirmation investigation. Disingenuously, he adds that it was purely a money-making venture and that Brother Laurance lost about $52,-000 in the ill-conceived project. Actually, copies of the book never received general distribution, and even the author claimed that the book was used only...