Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign-born, hailing from more logical places like Ireland, Barbados, Australia and Ceylon. Warned London's Evening News: "It would be a gross understatement to say they know something of the game." Indeed, in their first three matches, the Americans looked impressive. They outscored the Duke of Norfolk's team 178-117 before time ran out (thereby making the match officially a draw), lost by only 15 runs to a squad called the Free Foresters, and beat the Hertfordshire county team by 35 runs...
Kalamazoo, Mich., came on the computer line last week, by mid-June Nashville and Omaha will follow suit, with Norfolk and Seattle due to join the system by July 1. By then Realtron hopes to have its intercity circuits working effectively. First two areas to start exchanging data will be northern Virginia and Detroit. Pictures of the homes will be converted into small film clips and flashed on a screen, thus bringing closer the day when families can pick their houses across the U.S. on a national computer network as easily as if they were house hunting down the street...
...eight-year-old 252-ft. attack sub of the Skipjack class, Scorpion was returning to Norfolk, Va., from a cruise in the Mediterranean with 99 officers and men aboard. On May 21, just south of the Azores (see map), she filed her last "movement report" before transiting the inadequately charted undersea mountains of the mid-Atlantic. Not until six days later was the Navy aware that anything was amiss-and then only when Scorpion failed to report her arrival off the U.S. coast. The cold-war code for U.S. nuclear subs requires them to cruise submerged without any radio signals...
...nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
...Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But within the last 10 years a band of moderates, consisting of representatives from Richmond, the urban areas of Northern Virginia, and Tidewater cities like Norfolk and Portsmouth has sprung up between the two extremes in the party...