Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...votes the way her daddy does. John D. Rockefeller IV, 29, lanky (6 ft. 6½ in.) nephew of the G.O.P. Governors of New York and Arkansas, votes the way no other Rockefeller does. He is a Democrat-and a fledgling politician who has just won election to West Virginia's House of Delegates. Still, when their engagement was announced last week, they looked like a winning ticket...
Pillar of Strength. The two first met a year and a half ago, when Sharon was working in then-Congressman John Lindsay's Washington office as a clerk. Later, with Sharon in her senior year at Stanford and Jay in West Virginia, their romance flourished-thanks to long-distance telephone calls and jet airliners. In recent months, they have been sighted holding hands at Senator Robert Kennedy's Hickory Hill party for Diplomat Averell Harriman and walking arm in arm at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands. In Positano, a lovely cliffside Italian resort on the Tyrrhenian...
...knew too little "about the American people," he became a neighborhood poverty worker in Emmons, W. Va., at $6,400 a year. Wearing cheap denim trousers and shirts, he sought the trust of the poor and, despite his name, obviously gained it. He entered the race for West Virginia's House only after soliciting his future father-in-law's advice-and won it handily...
...Virginia's Prince Edward County, which has two separate school systems (public for Negroes, private for whites), is learning the price of prejudice. It comes to $180,000, which county officials will have to pay out of their own pockets...
...Republicans? Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican Party. The G.O.P. picked up two House seats, one in the Ninth District (Appalachia), and one in the Eighth, Howard W. Smith's old district, and probably could have taken another in the Third District (Richmond and surrounding counties) had they run a candidate against the incumbent Democrat this fall. Nevertheless the Republicans face serious problems. They have not been able to build up an effective statewide organizations; local offices have largely been left to the Democratic Party in return for the late Sen. Harry Byrd's "golden silence"--his refusal to support...