Word: virginia
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...Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...Vintner John's armigeral sons emigrated to the American colonies aboard the good ship Safety in 1635. Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker...
...Carters of Plains are distantly related to George Washington, and hence to Queen Elizabeth I, by intermarriage with the aristocratic Tookes and Newces of Hertfordshire and Virginia; they are also related to the Harrisons, the family that produced Presidents William Henry and Benjamin Harrison, and to the presidential Madisons. Family connections aside, says Brooks-Baker, "over the past six centuries, many of President Carter's ancestors have reached positions of immense importance. Some were very intelligent, but they didn't produce much with their brains. They were a little bit sleepy-like the President's brother...
...blue-blooding of Carter may come as a considerable surprise to the President's family, which hitherto has traced its roots to a different and less-distinguished Virginia branch. (On his visit to England in June, Chip Carter apparently visited the wrong ancestral village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
Elsewhere, Virginia creamed Texas and California to win the Certamen-a classical version of the College Bowl quiz -with state teams battling it out onstage over the lingua mater. "What case is required for the object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...