Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because so much of this action will be dominated by the Senate, its dour and aloof majority leader, Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia, 60, will become the most important power broker in Congress. The last session belonged to bluff Speaker Tip O'Neill, who worked closely with the inexperienced President and his aides, patiently teaching them how to get along with the people on Capitol Hill. O'Neill took charge of Administration measures and pushed many of them through the House, including the energy bill, which whipped through with few changes?only...
...Hubert returned to the University of Minnesota, where he majored in political science and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. When World War II broke out, he tried repeatedly to enlist, but was turned down because of a double hernia and lung calcification. (During the crucial West Virginia presidential primary in 1960, he was unjustly accused of being a draft dodger by John Kennedy's supporters.) He served as Minnesota state director of war-production training, and in 1943 ran for mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, largely because the liberal vote was split between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor...
...chain saws snarled and the great logs were carted off to Virginia for disposal, passers-by on Pennsylvania Avenue paused to watch and wonder. Trees have been an integral part of American commerce, folklore and culture. Especially elm trees. William Penn signed his treaty with the Indians in 1682 under an elm that was already 295 years old. The Boston Liberty Tree of 1770 was an elm. George Washington took command of the Continental troops under the Cambridge elm on July 3, 1775. Settlers hauled elms west and south and north, lining their streets and filling their parks with them...
...their wealth. With an $80 million stake in the Hyatt across the street, the 82-year-old Pritzker created the Hyatt Management Corp. to run the building and installed as its president Denzil Skinner, 50, a crisp, urbane executive who had spent 19 years running public assembly areas from Virginia to Indiana. Skinner has virtually halved the staff, and replaced politically appointed executives and contractors with trained managers. "What can be done with this building," says Skinner, "is limited only by the imagination...
Rising, Bowen was destined to be the last of the Anglo-Irish writers, a lively breed that included Sheridan, Swift and Oscar Wilde. Bowen also brushed against Bloomsbury during her early years as a writer. Writes Glendinning: "She is the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark...