Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A vivid novel based on the diary of the man who led the 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia...
...country has gone crazy about saving something," grins a happy member of Biddle's staff. Two Los Angeles burlesque houses want recognition as cultural monuments. Sheridan, Wyo., has saved Buffalo Bill's favorite saloon. Baltimore is trying to protect Babe Ruth's home. West Virginia would enshrine the father of Mother's Day. In Jackson, Tenn., Engineer Casey Jones's trackside bungalow is a museum. And Hartford, Conn., has a renovated stable proudly boasting: "George Washington's horse slept here...
Prior to his work at Harvard and Columbia, Hudnut served as professor of Architecture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and as professor of Architecture and director of the McIntire School of Fine Arts at the University of Virginia from...
...power. The first is to be installed at a nuclear plant in St. Joseph, Mich., by 1973. Altogether, four of the firm's "turbosets" could increase by more than 50% the power now produced by the 30 generating stations in American Electric's seven-state, Virginia-to-Michigan system...
...Virginia-born Davies joined Standard Oil of California as an office boy at 17 after graduating from high school in Fresno; he rose to be a director at 32 and senior vice president at 38. Though many oilmen had tagged him as a future president, Davies and Standard parted company after his wartime service as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator under the industry's old scourge, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Davies then founded American Independent Oil Co. (he has since sold his interest in it), later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges...