Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey swore in the only new mem ber: Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, a ringer for his famous father, who resigned in November be cause of ill health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio...
...Jobs. In the Senate, all eyes will be on Democratic Whip Russell Long of Louisiana, who is scheduled to become chairman of the Finance Committee in place of Virginia's Harry Byrd, who resigned from the Senate in November because of ill health. Long will be the first man in memory to hold both jobs, but Senate friends say that he has his eye on yet another job: the Senate majority leadership, now held by Montana's unassertive Mike Mansfield. "We all love Mike," says one Democratic Senator, "but many of us don't like...
...graduated from the University of Rochester medical school in 1943, Masters has been determined to chart the basic physiology of sex. Next spring Little, Brown & Co. will publish Human Sexual Response, the extraordinarily detailed results of Dr. Masters' eleven years' work with his research associate, Psychologist Virginia E. Johnson...
Clearly, it was time for Mrs. Virginia McLaughlin to tell her daughter about sex. At 13, Mary Ann had given birth to a baby boy. Mrs. McLaughlin sternly ordered the girl to avoid boys. Fearing she might not be obeyed, the Cleveland housewife also instructed Mary Ann to make sure that her next partner used a contraceptive (but didn't tell her that she could use one herself...
Born in West Virginia, lanky Jim Duesenberry won bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees (in economics) at the University of Michigan, roomed for a time with former Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa. One member of the board that granted Duesenberry's Ph.D. was Gardner Ackley, his new boss. An Air Force statistician during World War II, Duesenberry rose from private to captain. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1946, soon made his mark with a study of consumer spending that helped to spike fears that consumers would spend too little to fuel the postwar...