Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedys kept Jackie's and Caroline's horses stabled at Camp David, but the President was at first a reluctant visitor. The family was planning a private country home in Virginia. Only as J.F.K. began using the Government retreat more did he finally ask, "Why are we building Atoka when we have a wonderful place like this for free...
...Virginia Callahan. Remember Mrs. Joel's kid, Billy, from down the street? The greaser who took the piano lessons and had his shifty eye on you? Well, he just wrote a song about you. And you won't like...
...those "baby, let's make out" tunes from the 1950s, the ones where the guys were always trying to get the girls to go ... well, if not further than they wanted, then at least further than they thought they should. Billy gets right down to business. "Come out Virginia, Don't let me wait/ You Catholic girls start much too late," he sings in his bruised tenor, his memory for details ("You got a nice white dress and/ a party on your confirmation") as sharp as his point...
...Cape Cod, Gornick talked to a 70-year-old Polish-born Catholic, a former labor organizer and Spanish Civil War volunteer, who today is a folk hero to vacationing liberals. There are old Wobblies from Idaho, miners from West Virginia, women who left their families to go "underground," fiery daughters of dirt farmers, rebellious sons of the rich, and even an ex-Communist who now works for organized crime...
...task force was chaired by Rochester, N.Y., Laywoman Virginia Davidson, wife of a retired Kodak executive and mother of four. The members, selected to represent various views in the church, included an openly homosexual young alumnus of Yale Divinity School and Historical Theologian Richard Lovelace, an articulate conservative from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. With typical Presbyterian thoroughness, they prepared a 198-page report that examines psychological data, social currents and especially the 13 Bible passages that deal with homosexuality...