Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure crippled nearly one-third of the 48,000-sq.-mi. area served by the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, a power grid serving those three states plus Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It began in southeastern Pennsylvania, when a 230,000-volt power line abruptly surged with 606,000 kilowatts. The overloaded line heated up and cross-circuited with a low-voltage line. The Philadelphia Electric Co. had twice warned system dispatchers to anticipate a heavy load and split it between two lines, but the orders, for some reason, were disregarded. The short circuit automatically shut down Philadelphia Electric...
...General Mills, Bob Richards never earned more than $6,000 a year. Something of a neighborhood tough during his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., Richards got religion when he started going with a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After high school, he attended a small church school in Virginia, where he was a star athlete, and where he met and married Mary Leah Cline (they have three teen-age children). He then transferred to the University of Illinois, where he showed equal proficiency in the vaulting pit and the classroom. Armed with a master's degree in philosophy...
...fish disappear? No one is sure, but Peck Humphries, president of Standard Products Co. in Virginia's Tidewater country, thinks it is simply a passing phase: "The biologists have some theories for the decline, but usually the fish make liars out of them...
...founding pastor of the church and still ringmaster of its multitudinous activities is the Rev. Gordon Cosby, 49. Born in Virginia, the son of a Baptist deacon, Cosby was ordained a minister of his father's church after graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. During World War II, as a chaplain to an infantry glider regiment that landed in Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division, Cosby began to think about the possibility of a new kind of ecumenical congregation based upon personal commitment rather than creed. While in Europe, he formed the experimental Airborne Christian Church, which...
...elected delegates-one each from 39 local school districts of unequal size. With 55% of the county's population, Grand Rapids has only 2.5% of the delegate voting power. Even so, Douglas approved the system because the board posts are "basically appointive rather than elective." Also approved: a Virginia Beach, Va., plan that gives each of seven equal districts a resident city councilman but requires that they be elected by citywide ballot. Finding no "invidious discrimination," Douglas saw the plan as a salutary "detente between urban and rural communities...