Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They planned to be married this summer, and Patty had spent much of her time selecting china and silver patterns at Tiffany's and buying dresses. Their life together was tranquil. Says her sister, Virginia Bosworth: "They didn't party a lot. Steve played the guitar and liked to work on his stereo equipment. Patty liked to cook. They both took pride in fixing up the apartment...
...gradually forgoing mass transit and commuting to work by car. The nationwide 55-m.p.h. speed limit is being more and more ignored. While many householders continue to douse lights in empty rooms, outdoor signs in Las Vegas, Manhattan and other places are again blazing wastefully. New Jersey and Virginia have dropped state gasoline-rationing plans, and President Nixon has told motorists that there is no longer any need for them to cancel driving vacations this summer...
Thomas Jefferson is generally perceived as the philosopher-statesman nonpareil of the infant nation. His accomplishments affect and touch us still. He drafted the Declaration of Independence and championed the Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...
...points out, "Harvard has never produced 'ethnic' leaders for any group: more Catholic-Irish leaders come from Boston College, Holy Cross, St. John's and Notre Dame than from Harvard, although there have long been Catholics at Harvard. Far more Southern white leaders come from Alabama, Texas, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Virginia, and William and Mary than from Harvard. Is it any wonder then that Morehouse, Howard and other black colleges have produced more black leaders than Harvard...
...punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Virginia and Delaware...