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Fayette County is what a West Virginian might call "fair to middlin.'" With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, it ranks 27th out of 55 West Virginia counties, and 24th in earnings per job. Fayette County is neither affluent nor dirt poor. If you peer into the "hollers," you can find wretched poverty. But most of the area is dotted by modest, clean houses and neat yards...
Time and time again, Reagan edged over to the White House windows to look down the South Lawn, over the fountains and past the Washington Monument, on to the Jefferson Memorial, where the bronze figure of the great Virginian stands resolutely. Often when Reagan came to work he would offer his assessment of the weather, determined by how clearly he could see Jefferson in the Potomac River Valley. In the finale, Reagan loitered more than ever in his private study next to the Truman Balcony, often with Nancy beside him and a fire burning in the fireplace. Once, when...
Scott Balderson '90, co-founder of the club and a native Virginian, said one of the club's principal activities would be to show Southern films, possibly in conjunction with a House film society. Balderson cited the annual Lowell House spring showing of the Southern favorite Gone With the Wind as a main attraction...
Shocked that people actually still used the word "nigger," I struck up a conversation with them. I discovered that they felt their words were not wrong or harmful. "I'm not prejudiced," the West Virginian explained. "I just don't like them." The two men continued talking throughout Jackson's speech, preaching their racial philosophy and explaining that if my local pub were in their hometown, Blacks wouldn't be permitted to enter. They claimed their local pubs admit Blacks only through the back door...
...arrival of the Beatles for their first U.S. tour and caught the moment with a description of hysterical fans throbbing like alien protoplasm against the plate glass of the airport waiting room. The story stretched conventional journalistic license, but few readers could deny that this brightly tailored, soft-spoken Virginian was up to something...