Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political fief of the late Harry Byrd for four decades, last week's Democratic primary elections indicated that the old Byrd machine might be rattling toward a final breakdown. Sidney Severn Kellam, a chief mechanic of the machine for 36 years, lost his political power base in the Norfolk area when five of the eight candidates supported by his organization for the state legislature and local offices were defeated by allies of Virginia's moderate U.S. Senator William Spong. With the power center of the Old Dominion's politics shifting inexorably from the county courthouses...
...Engel of Dayton, O. (Economics); Alan N. Granger of Berkley, Mich. (History and Literature); John A. Gresham of Mt. Lebanon, Pa. (Social Relations); Albert J. Hudspeth of Houston, Tex. (Biochemistry); Bruce R. Leslie of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Biology); G.W. Schaumburg Jr. of Provo, Utah (Applied Mathematics); Allen Trasher of Norfolk, Va. (Sanskrit); Ronald L. Trosper of Milwaukee, Wisc. (Social Studies); Pieter M. Visscher of Minneapolis, Minn. (Physics) and David A. Wendt of Haddonfield, N.J. (Social Studies...
...little more gradual. He is not a Horatio Alger hero but an updated and inner-directed Huck Finn. He was born in October 1925 in Corning, Iowa, where his father Homer-dubbed, inevitably, Kit-worked for a utility company. When Johnny was eight, his family moved to Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 15,200), where Homer (who is now retired) was appointed to the district managership of the Nebraska Light & Power...
...secretary), "whenever the family wants to needle John, we say, Take a card, take a card.' " Still, determination paid off. At 14, Johnny was a pro. His mother stitched up an impressive black banner emblazoned with yellow Chinese-like characters reading THE GREAT CARSONI, and Johnny played the Norfolk Rotary Club and local parties...
...might be "the final instrument for foisting this new cartel on the country." The big question was what would happen to the small complainants in the face of strengthened competition. Most railroad men assume that all three will eventually be included in another merger under consideration, that of the Norfolk & Western and the C. & O.-B. & O. But the ICC, maintained Clark, "erred in approving the immediate consummation of the [Penn Central] merger without determining the ultimate fate" of the smaller roads...