Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wayne Woodlief, a Nieman Fellow concluding a year at Harvard, is a general assignment reporter for the Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Star. His assignments reporter for the Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Star. His assignments have included race relations and politics. He has followed the Virginia senatorial campaign through newspapers from his state and correspondence with politicians...
There was a time when men could count on certain apparently eternal verities. The Yankees would win the pennant, Notre Dame would go undefeated in football, and Virginia politics would march to the tune of U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...times and men change, and the old truths of Virginia politics have slipped further than the Yankees or Notre Dame...
...Virginia nears the rare chance to choose both its U.S. senators in the same year (for the first time since 1911), vote-catching in the Old Dominion has assumed an Alice in Wonderland character...
...with the Chicago branch of Cadillac. Soon his name was entered in G.M.'s "black book"-a loose-leaf binder with profiles of the 700 or so brightest comers in the company-and he was tapped to attend "the Greenbrier group," a triennial meeting in West Virginia where key managers debate grand strategy. Rising on the company escalator, he was moved up to general manager of Cadillac in the 1950s, the era when its cars sprouted their sharpest fins. When, in 1962, he leaped over several seniors to become executive vice president in charge of the overseas group...