Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Two faculty couples turn an after-hours party into a marital Armageddon, with the same corrosive language used in Edward Albee's Broadway hit. As hosts, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor make a sizzling night...
After casting his ballot in the Virginia hamlet of New Baltimore, Howard Worth Smith shook his head. "I don't know," he said. "Times have changed." How much they had changed became apparent in the next several hours. When the votes were counted in last week's Democratic primary, "Judge" Smith, 83, longtime leader of the conservative Southern bloc in the House of Representatives, was dispossessed of the seat he has occupied for 35 years. Senator Willis Robertson, 79, like Smith a member of the Byrd organization, was also defeated. And, in the Old Dominion that has been...
...Young Harry, who was opposed by Armistead Soothe, 58, he concentrated on refurbishing the Byrd image. Styling himself a "progressive conservative," he coolly ignored Boothe's invitations to debate, and parried his opponent's efforts to label him a segregationist. Though Byrd helped lead Virginia's "massive resistance" campaign against school integration in the late '50s, he proclaimed that such efforts are now "passé." Said he: "I am for education." Byrd, who has been serving in the Senate by appointment since Harry Sr.'s resignation in November, probably attracted some sympathy votes, since...
Though his nomination virtually assured him of victory in the general election, Young Harry went so far as to observe that "competition for high office is healthy." Yes, Virginia, times have indeed changed...
...United Utilities (912,000 telephones), headed by Paul Henson, operates in 17 states, has added eleven companies in the past 18 months, ranging from the 150,000-phone Inter-Mountain Telephone Co. of Tennessee and Virginia to the East Enterprise Telephone Co., of Indiana, with 300 phones...