Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RHODES SCHOLAR. It took the British Parliament to break Cecil Rhodes's will, but this year, for the first time, 13 of the 32 American Rhodes scholars are women, and one of them is Catherine Burke, 22, a Middle Eastern specialist at the University of Virginia. She wrote her prize-winning 157-page senior thesis on the Lebanese civil war. On the 'side, she co-founded a model United Nations at U.Va. and captained the women's fencing team. She hand-letters medieval-style manuscripts for "relaxation" and this summer plans to take a course in Arabic...
...Though this childhood disease seemed on the verge of extinction after the introduction of a vaccine against it in the early 1960s, measles has been making an alarming comeback. In recent months, there have been startling outbreaks in such widely scattered states as California, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia...
...lacrosse faithfuls who converged on the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium for the title duel were looking forward to a delicious replay of the nail-biting squeaker the two squads staged during the regular season, a game the Big Red won with a second-half rally...
...boldest person in the world. In fact, I'm fairly retiring," says Lady Bird Johnson. Yet in 1964, campaigning for Lyndon, the First Lady once made 47 speeches in four days on a whistle-stop tour of the South. Back on the hustings in Virginia, Lady Bird, 64, is again gamely speaking at luncheons and asking audiences to ante up contributions at fund raisers. Her message: "I don't presume to tell Virginians about Virginia politics, but I do know Chuck Robb." Robb, 37, her lawyer son-in-law, is after the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor...
...superb group of sophomores led by Jack Thomas, Rick Kowalchuk, and Les Matthews turned the team around and were favored to take the title. Instead, Hopkins had to swallow a 13-12 upset loss to Virginia in the final...