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...Virginia Tidewater country, slaughtering every white man, woman and child in their path. Although it was suppressed in two days, the rebellion claimed 55 victims. Its leader died on the gallows with 16 of his men. His body was flayed and the flesh rendered into grease; some souvenir-minded Virginian sliced a money purse out of the skin...
...asked disingenuously. "I didn't think it was quite that much." He admitted that he had received at least $1,000,000 in consulting and attorney's fees from companies controlled by Promoter Wallace Groves, an ex-Virginian whose political clout in the sun-drenched Bahamas has enabled him to turn his giant holdings on Grand Bahama Island into a lucrative industrial park and high-priced playground just 26 minutes by jet from Miami...
...tennis buff for the name of the best amateur player in the U.S., and the answer is likely to be Arthur Ashe, the lean, tall Virginian who is the first Negro ever to top the U.S. men's rankings. These days, though, the answer may not come so quickly. And any hesitance reflects the fact that Ashe, 23, has yet to win a major tournament. What's more, there is at least one other American around who seems to have Arthur's number: his old college roommate at U.C.L.A., Charles Pasarell...
...much by disposition as descent, Harry Flood Byrd was an aristocrat. Like his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jef ferson, he had doubts about a truly demotic society. In courtly but inflexible fashion, Byrd also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering...
...Economize, Balance, Reduce." The Virginian's philosophy of government was blunt and uncompromising: "Economize, balance the budget, make some substantial debt payments, and eventually reduce taxes in all the individual brackets and on business." Yet after he became chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in 1955, practically no one in Government heeded his homilies. For his part, Byrd used the powers of his position to slow down or distort legislation that he found distasteful...