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thesnack bar’s walls, there is one I’ve always liked. It says: “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
And with a true democratic spirit,Mrs. Oliff and her helpers alwaysserve customers in order. The ordinary citizen receives the same consideration as a hungry lieutenant governor or state Senator or powerful lobbyist.
“Chicken is a living legend,” said Theodore V. Morrison Jr. of NewportNews, once one of the House of Delegates’ most influential members and now a State Corporation Commission judge. “To her, all folks are equal. You just go in there and wait your turn.”
It’s the kind of atmosphere that makes someone, returning briefly, wax nostaligic with the realization that despite the growth of state government, the informal goings on around the Capitol make you feel you’re back home again.
Unlike the vast slow bureaucracy of Washington, where everything is
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