Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe varsity tennis team returned from a spring vacation tour of Virginia, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., with more than just a won-lost record. The squad gained a lot of confidence, spirit and experience for the coming season, according to team co-captain Lissa Muscatine...
...actual record is a strong 6-2 mark, with the only losses coming at the hands of two Southern women's tennis powerhouses, Mary Baldwin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mary Baldwin rates as the top team in Virginia, while UNC is loaded with individual state champions and also ranks as the most formidable team in its state...
Other Senators spoke in a similarly ominous vein. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd-a conservative whom Nixon once considered for a Supreme Court vacancy and who is highly regarded by the Southern Senators Nixon is most ardently courting -charged that the President was trying "to mislead the people and to sabotage the legitimate and constitutional impeachment inquiry." Republican Senator Howard Baker, a member of the Senate Watergate committee, declared that the "legalisms and narrow issues" adopted by Nixon had hurt rather than helped his survival chances and that he must surrender all "relevant" evidence to the Rodino...
...Senator Charles Percy, another coauthor, claims that it is "one of the historic turning points in the evolution of our institutions." The bill has been hailed by many liberal Senators, notably Maine's Edmund Muskie and California's Alan Cranston, as well as by such conservatives as Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. and Tennessee's William Brock...
...throughout the U.S., other watering places have begun to regenerate, reversing the pro cesses of civilization. In the Hudson River, Virginia spot have begun to spawn again; trout are slowly returning to the Willimantic River in Connecticut...