Word: norfolk
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...resegregation is indeed the wave of the future, then the future can be glimpsed in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk won federal court approval of a return to neighborhood schools back in 1986, for the stated purpose of increasing parental involvement and arresting white flight. Black parents had sued to block the new plan because it would immediately render 10 elementary schools, many of them serving housing projects, 100% black. Sociologist David Armor, retained as an expert witness by the school board, predicted that if Norfolk's crosstown busing continued, the whole school system would soon become 75% black, making racial balance...
AREN'T WE GLAD WE WEREN'T AROUND TO be bitten by some of the strange ancient creatures described in your story? HENRY C. PUGH Norfolk, Virginia...
...over, Ripken didn't just dress and go home. He went back out onto the field for one of his postgame autograph sessions, signing for and kibitzing with 2,000 fans. "Cal Ripken personifies everything that is right with baseball," said Bob Seal, 33, an engineer for the Norfolk Southern Railroad who came up to the game from Chattanooga, Tennessee...
That's when Stroupe took over the church. He was 36 years old then, a youthful, activist minister who had campaigned hard for prison reform in Norfolk, Virginia, and elsewhere. But the decrepit physical state of the 62-year-old church and the demoralized yet intransigent spiritual condition of some of the Oakhurst congregation initially startled and depressed him. "The white people who stayed at the church wanted things done their way," Stroupe recalls. "And the blacks weren't talking, but it was clear they wanted some changes." What intrigued Stroupe, and made him stay on, was that the congregation...
...this week the Eisenhower arrives at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, completing a historic six-month cruise with the first group of women to serve on a combat ship. The results of the experiment have been eagerly awaited. Before the ship even began sea trials last summer, the Navy's macho diehards spread dark warnings that women, ordered on board by the U.S. Congress, wouldn't perform as well as men on the nuclear-powered carrier. Mixing the sexes in cramped quarters for so long, some critics argued, would turn the Ike into a Love Boat. The camaraderie...