Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Hartmann, 57, Ford's long time close aide, is ensconced in Rose Mary Woods' old office. Philip Buchen, 58, the President's early law partner back home in Grand Rapids, is White House Counsel. John Marsh, 48, who was serving as a Democratic Congressman from Virginia when he was initially attracted to Ford, is now a Presidential Counsellor. All of these old friends can drop in to see the top man pretty much as they please...
...encountered constructing its first bomb. It is not surprising that four years ago a precocious 14-year-old sketched the workings of a nuclear explosive and included it as part of a bomb threat that terrified Orlando, Fla., for 36 hours. Nor is cost a deterrent. University of Virginia Professor Mason Willrich, a nuclear-arms expert, estimates that a weapons fabrication and assembly plant that can manufacture ten fission warheads annually costs about $8 million to build. Each 20-kiloton warhead would run less than $15 million, plus the cost of the fissionable material. This is within the reach...
...nuclear weapons. It no longer is absurd to imagine Palestinian terrorists or urban guerrillas stealing enough Pu-239, hiring scientists and manufacturing an easily transportable nuclear explosive. As Arms Expert Dr. Theodore B. Taylor points out, one terrorist group with one bomb could blackmail a metropolis. The University of Virginia's Willrich fears that some day a black market in fissionable materials could develop, with syndicates of organized criminals stealing from private reactors and selling to individuals or governments...
When Senate Majority Whip Robert Byrd rose to accept the West Virginia Broadcasters Association Distinguished Achievement Award last week, guests at the staid Greenbrier resort expected the standard political speech. Instead, Byrd picked up a violin and to his own accompaniment let loose with a few choruses of Old Joe Clark. "He's no violinist, but he's a damn good fiddle player," judged Association President Bob Brown after Byrd's performance. Actually, Byrd began his music career as a boy back in Stotesbury, W. Va., and began using the violin on the campaign trail to draw...
...called, has 2,000 seats and food that is as elegant as the ambience. Little has been changed inside. Diners enter through a ticket booth, scanning a big schedule board, and buy tickets printed with a destination that determines their choice of entree: New Orleans books their shrimp; Virginia, cloved, sugar-coated ham; New York, filet mignon...