Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enveloped in clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under Secretary of the Treasury: "He came in costume, all right. He came dressed as Arthur Burns...
MARRIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 79, retired industrialist and majority stockholder of the New York Mets; and Virginia Kraft, 47, associate editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who met him in 1962 when she wrote an article about his Florida hunting lodge; both for the second time; in Falmouth Foreside, Me. Payson's first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, died...
Come out, Virginia. Don't let me wait...
...newer TV face, Pat Robertson,46, founding father of the Virginia, based Christian Broadcasting Net; work, will open the first component of a proposed $50 million combined communications school and university next fall. The Yale Law graduate, son of Virginia's late U.S. Senator Willis A. Robertson, recently inaugurated a new satellite transmitter?the first one to be owned by an independent TV producer ?to feed various Gospel programs simultaneously to the four CBN-owned channels and 130 other stations at an annual cost of $20 million. Pentecostalist Robertson also acts as host on the 700 Club, seen daily...
...improbable. Act I of Chapter Two contains the sunniest romantic sequences of the wooing of a woman by a man that Simon has ever written. Act II contains some husband-and-wife bloodletting that Edward Albee might have thought of when he was writing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...