Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...venture, started by a Protestant Army chaplain and his unit with the hospital, has been labeled "Operation Harelip." For the past few months, the men have been bringing Vietnamese children with harelips to the hospital, passing the hat to cover the expenses of corrective surgery performed by Sister M. Virginia Sayers, M.D., of Toledo, Ohio...
...pair with a theatrical flair, as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne showed when they caroused through the play on Broadway in 1940. For this film version of Shrew, the Burtons-who only recently finished shrewing their way through the movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-are being put through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story that audiences...
...Virginia's political picture this year is far more uncertain than it was last fall. Kellam and other leaders of the Organization tried to persuade Robertson, 79 years old today, to withdraw in favor of a younger Organization candidate. Kellam failed, and has endorsed Robertson and Byrd...
...first weeks of the campaign have produced no solid disputes over issues. All four candidates, for the present at least, support President Johnson's Vietnam policy. All have declared their support for the right-to-work law, perhaps because Virginia is still industry-hunting and because organized labor has yet to show any real political pull in the state...
...Byrd Jr.) is," Boothe has declared. "But where funds were available (in the state senate) and needed--truly needed--I was willing to appropriate them." Byrd Jr., who likes to talk about what he's doing in the U.S. Senate rather than what he did in the Virginia senate, calls himself a "forward-looking conservative...