Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia Mayo Fiske, Sci.D., educator and researcher in endocrinology...
Personal Abuse. All three have run their campaigns on shoestring budgets with limited staffs out of dilapidated headquarters in West Virginia. Seeking to shake hands at shift-change times, they often must show up at one mine at midnight, at another many miles away eight hours later, at a third in midafternoon. Their campaigns have consisted largely of personal abuse. Patrick accuses Miller of wasting union funds by spending excessive time at a motel in Charleston instead of going to his home 30 miles away; he is careful to go no further than that. Miller says that Patrick lost...
George Mason traveled to Williamsburg by carriage in 1776 to deliver his Virginia Declaration of Rights to the House of Burgesses; Patrick Henry conducted his late-night debates at the King's Arms Tavern by the flickering glow of candlelight. Today's visitors to Colonial Williamsburg explore the nation's oldest and most ambitious historical restoration in shuttle buses and relax in air-conditioned rooms with electric light. But the 20th century comforts carry an inflated modern price tag-and so, in Bicentennial 1976 of all years, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs the restoration, suffered...
Superstripper. Then there is the saga of Frank Burford, who as recently as 1973 was making $19,000 a year. In 1976 his income was more than $4 million. He became a superstripper-of coal. A former Emory University law professor, Burford returned home to West Virginia in 1967 to liquidate his ailing father's highway-construction business. Instead, he and a cousin revved up the company, branched into trucking and started hauling coal. The partners took over a money-losing coal company and started acquiring leases on vast carboniferous acreage. When coal prices soared in the wake...
History professor, University of Virginia...