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...women, all of whom, as Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...
Originally, the Vice President was conceived as the second man most qualified to be President. John Adams, the first man to be elected to the office, filled that role. But he was also picked because he came from Massachusetts, while George Washington was a Virginian. Thus, even at the outset, the No. 2 man was selected at least partly to provide political balance for the No. 1. Washington did his best to get the job off to a good start by giving Adams many political responsibilities...
Died. Alexander A. ("Sunny Jim") Vandegrift, 86, commander of the U.S. Marine Corps assault on Guadalcanal and Bougainville islands during World War II; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. A quiet, courtly Virginian, Vandegrift directed the first U.S. land offensive against the Japanese when he led the 1st Marine Division onto Guadalcanal in August 1942. For three months his outnumbered men held their ground through bitter jungle fighting before reinforcements arrived, and for his leadership Vandegrift was awarded the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. The first active four-star general in Marine history, he served four...
Similarly, on TV's Issues and Answers, he allowed that he might look with favor upon the nomination of Senator Robert Byrd to the Supreme Court, despite the conservative record of the West Virginian, who is antibusing. Next day McGovern retracted the statement. His present stand is that he is "sympathetic to parents who are concerned about their children being sent to inferior schools" and that he "wouldn't be distressed" if the Supreme Court ordered lower courts to "back off" from extensive busing directives in metropolitan areas. He nonetheless still believes that busing is an "important tool...
...painting," Rockefeller supports the expansion of deep mining, a far less unsightly operation. "When I see one stripper working," he says, "I see three deep miners out of work." So do the mineowners-and that is one reason why they are solidly aligned behind Moore, a native West Virginian and a supporter of strip mining...