Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talked to him. The would-be suicide was put on the phone, and, slick as butter, the Reverend began to calm him. Falwell explained, as one reasonable person to another, that he had to be on a national television program. But, Falwell promised, he would certainly be back in Virginia by 6 o'clock that evening. The veteran agreed to wait. Falwell did his show, flew home, met the upset man and converted him to Christ...
...other selected professors were: Oxford College's A.O.J. Cockshut, Brown's Reginald D. Archambault, Yale's Anthony Appiah and John Blum, the University of Pennsylvania's Paul Fussell, and the University of Virginia's Bob Kellogg...
...Lemon test is a lemon," protested Forest Montgomery, spokesman for the National Association of Evangelicals. The American Civil Liberties Union, however, called the rebuilding of church-state separation a "welcome exercise in true conservatism." A.E. Dick Howard, the University of Virginia law professor who represented taxpayers challenging Grand Rapids' school program, acknowledges that the cases return the court to the mainstream of its own past decisions. But the close vote "shows there is much to be fought over with the next vacancy on the court," he noted. "The majority of five includes most of the older Justices." Says University...
Some of these insights into the Walker family saga came to light on cable TV in an interview that Laura Walker Snyder, 25, gave to the Virginia-based Christian Broadcasting Network. In 1979, Laura said, she told her husband, Mark Snyder, 26, that her father had tried to enlist her as a spy while she was in the Army. After she and Mark separated in 1982, Mark kept their son Christopher, then 2, and, according to Laura, threatened to expose John Walker's espionage if she tried to win legal custody of the boy. "My husband was blackmailing me," Laura...
...with Viet Nam may have been a question on The Hollywood Squares. "The movie doesn't have a lot to do with Viet Nam and how we felt when we were there," says Josiah Bunting III, a Viet Nam veteran who is now president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. "It's impossible to take seriously, but it's very enjoyable...