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...Thursday in the English seaside town of Whitehaven, a transmitter tower that had broadcast British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programs to analog television sets since the 1950s switched off. The abrupt blackening was the first part of a nationwide program to make British television entirely digital...
...decade ago, it was easy to name America's best-known historic homes. They were Monticello and Mount Vernon. But since it opened to the public in 1982, Elvis' place in suburban Whitehaven, a 30-minute drive from downtown Memphis, has attracted more than 3 million visitors. That figure makes it one of the top house attractions in the U.S. This year alone, some 640,000 people will visit Graceland, and in the process they will spend more than $10 million on tickets, food and souvenirs...
...commissioner, countered by noting that his Marine unit had handled the offshore recovery of a Gemini space shot. In the end, however. Beard won for far more prosaic reasons?the district had been redrawn to include 51,000 white, conservative voters, mostly from a Shelby County suburb appropriately named "Whitehaven...
...Tuesday the Overseers will convene at the new Center for Hellenic Studies on Whitehaven St., established by the University with the aid of the Old Dominion Foundation. One reason for holding the Overseers' meeting in Washington was to let them get acquainted with the center and its work in the art and literature of ancient Greece...
...Whitehaven, Tenn. (pop. 2,000), eight marriages of high-school students since September were too many for Principal Fred Elliott. He announced that hereafter students who got married would be dismissed from school. He also forbade the boys & girls to lunch or stroll together, or to hold hands...