Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varied crew of correspondents. Bureau Chief Marsh Clark is a Middle Westerner who was political editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME. Wallace Terry, who will soon go to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. William Marmon, a Virginian with a Princeton degree, once taught school in Greece. John Wilhelm, a Florida native, used to be a TIME correspondent in Washington. Chicago-born Burton Pines studied at the University of Wisconsin and was working in Heidelberg on his Ph.D. in history when he was hired by TIME...
Double Deal. When President Kennedy offered him the same Washington assignment in 1961, Allen, a gaunt, muscular-faced West Virginian, turned it down. He had spent six years on the job in New York, and he was convinced that the best hope for improved schools lay with the states. Even though he has since changed his mind about the importance of federal influence, Allen refused President Nixon's initial offer because of his doubts about the new Administration's priorities for education. He finally accepted after he was given two posts-that of U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...acquisition of MCA goes through, Westinghouse will be getting a studio that accounts for 151 hours a week of network TV's prime-time output (The Virginian, It Takes a Thief and Ironside) and has turned out some of Hollywood's most profitable full-length features (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Secret War of Harry Frigg). The biggest plums are the potential TV receipts from MCA's library of 1,954 feature films, including 700 Paramount features that Wasserman shrewdly bought up ten years ago, and the company's real estate properties, notably its $1 billion Universal...
Spong's first year in office, however, has disappointed Virginians who hoped for a bold new era in the state's politics. He has worked as conscientiously as everyone expected--his large, cheerful, busy staff is most unusual for a Virginian serving in Washington--but on 83 per cent of the Senate votes he has agreed with the state's senior Senator, Harry Byrd...
Sustained Sentiment. The man who is slated to preside over the Penn Central, fittingly enough, is the man who started the merger trend. It was Saunders, as president of the Norfolk & Western, who arranged for the takeover of the Virginian Railway in 1959 and laid the groundwork for the N. & W. to acquire the Nickel Plate and the Wabash. Born in McDowell, W. Va., Saunders grew up in Bedford, Va., within sight and sound of the N. & W.'s main line through the coal fields. He attended college in the town where the N. & W. has its headquarters. Even...