Word: virginia
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Only three of TIME'S young leaders ran for office and lost: Democrat Dick Clark, who sought re-election to the Senate from Iowa; Democrat Andrew Miller, in the Senate race in Virginia; and Democrat Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, in the race for California attorney general. The fact that only three were defeated may be a sign that leadership is regaining a stability that has seemed to be missing in the years since Richard Nixon's resignation...
DIED. Izetta Jewel Miller, 94, former actress and early feminist who twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, from West Virginia, in the early 1920s; in La Jolla, Calif. Active in the women's movement before World War I, Miller reigned as the leading lady of Washington, D.C., theater and was President Woodrow Wilson's favorite actress...
...Roueche's full-length portraits in this collection of 13 pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker move with a similar ease through the routines of their lives. A Congregational minister visits the aged and tries, without notable success, to counsel the young. Residents of a West Virginia hill town adjust to living in an environment better suited to mountain goats. "How many places do you know," one of the townspeople asks Roueché, "where you can stand at the basement door and spit on the roof of a three-story house?" Visiting a small German-colonized town...
...professional man of letters, like the shepherd and the blacksmith, is a vanishing species, found mainly in the British Isles. William Plomer, who died in 1973 at the age of 69, was a notable specimen. He made his debut at 21 with Turbott Wolfe, a novel that Leonard and Virginia Woolf recognized as a minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down...
Voters generally were in no mood to bet on gambling. New Jersey refused to permit wagering on jai alai. Virginia nixed parimutuel betting on horse races, and Florida balked at allowing casinos along Miami Beach. More permissive was California's attitude toward smoking. Partly swayed by a campaign of $5.3 million by tobacco companies. Californians solidly rejected Proposition 5, which would have banned smoking in most public places. In Montana the drinking age was raised from 18 to 19, and in Michigan it jumped from...