Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Weather Service reports that the "flood potential" is high in an area covering western New York and Pennsylvania and extending into most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio and the northeastern tip of Kentucky. Much of that region lies beneath a blanket of snow that is six inches or more thick. Says Herb Lieb, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It's like a great, frigid lake, ready to run during a sudden thaw. We could have the makings of some real flood disasters...
...simply doesn't add much more. This means that some of the most interesting reading comes in the footnotes to Convention, where Reeves mentions the rumors that some New York congressmen voted not to override President Ford's veto of the strip-mining bill in exchange for a key Virginia congressman's vote for New York as the convention site...
...anyone can be believed about basketball, it is Jerry West. Few have mastered the game as thoroughly as this open-faced country boy from West Virginia. In his 14 seasons as a player, West scored 25,192 points-a record that has been topped only by Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson. Along the way, West shoveled off 6,238 assists-meaning he gave away more points than all but a few superstars score in an entire career. Says Laker Forward Don Ford: "I watched him play on TV when I was growing up. As far as I'm concerned...
...than most critics. Roots, he says, "is dishonest tripe. It took a crude mass-culture approach. It shows how dismally ignorant blacks and whites still are about slavery." As a number of critics have noted, there were, to start with, some errors of setting. Styron objects that "counties in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee which are as flat as Ping Pong paddles look as if they were shot on a back set used for horse operas with a background of the San Bernardino Mountains...
During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Virginia's Fairfax County school board decided to build an innovative, energy-saving school. Blueprints called for a partly solar-powered building, buried underground so that the heat generated by students, lights and machinery would not escape. When the board took its plan to the federal Energy Research and Development Administration in search of a grant, it got nowhere. Then, a Washington consultant for Saudi Arabia, who had read about the school, asked the board if it would be interested in a "private" investment. It was, and a $700,000 grant from...