Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite staunch support from Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic machine in Virginia's gubernatorial election last month, Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin won only after beating down a strong challenge by Republican Candidate A. Linwood Holton, who captured 38% of the votes-and proved that the state could no longer be considered a Byrd sanctuary. Last week brought even more impressive evidence of change in the Old Dominion. The occasion was a special election to fill the state senate seat vacated by Harry F. Byrd Jr., 51, whose appointment to the U.S. Senate last month in place...
...lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another at Dickinson, several students shot at Ohio's Miami University, a professor killed at the University of Virginia, and the president of Mississippi's Oakland College stabbed to death by a student...
...Answer." Last week all those and many more tons of gifts were on their way to U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam for Christmas. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, it seemed, had responded to the same gut reaction that moved Virginia Beach, Va., Housewife Betty McKenzie, co-chairman of a gift-collecting group that came up with 8,440 shoe boxes full of socks, tobacco, razor blades and candy. Said she: "It was our answer to draft-card burners, beatniks and anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
...another Gideon effect, says Silverstein, states have begun to follow the federal rule that a defendant must know what he is doing when he waives the right to counsel. Written waivers are now required in North Carolina, West Virginia and Massachusetts. In other states, the number of waivers is declining. Moreover, indigents who request lawyers at the preliminary hearing in any felony case now get them in Utah, Idaho, Illinois, Virginia and New Mexico. As for misdemeanors, Massachusetts now requires counsel in any case punishable by imprisonment. Texas and New York will soon follow suit...
They are: David J. Baker '66, Johnathan P. Goldman '66, Alan E. Lazar, Craig Donaldson, Frederick P. Schaffer '68, John T. Sackton '68, George M. Tiller '68, Henry W. Corbett '66, Lucy Moore '66, Virginia Wiesell David A. Link '66, Charlene S. Chang '66, Kate G. Wenner '69, Patrick J. McGinity '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and James S. Wylie...