Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bound to happen.") Along the York River, a new $70 million American Oil Co. refinery is in full operation near Yorktown, where the grass-carpeted trenches of the final battle for American independence still twist in a mystifying maze. And along the Potomac, in the Arlington-Alexandria area across from the nation's capital, are beehives of brick housing developments inhabited by thousands of federal workers viewed by most Virginians as foreigners...
...more important, Virginia's Republican Party, given impetus by the influx of new Alexandria-Arlington voters, has developed into a bona fide political force: Dwight Eisenhower twice carried the state, the first time by 80,000 votes, this year by 122,000; Virginia has two Republican Congressmen who have withstood the test of off-year elections; Democratic incumbents were hard pressed in three other districts this year; Republican State Senator Ted Dalton received more than 44% of the vote for governor in 1953. Expected to run again next year, he may threaten the organization's hold on Richmond...
...under Sudanese registry. Her captain produced two passports, one Greek, the other Costa Rican. Seven out of her crew of ten were unregistered and looked as if they might be Algerians. After lengthy interrogation of captain and crew, the French triumphantly announced that the Athos had been loaded in Alexandria by uniformed Egyptian soldiers. The French government asked the Egyptian ambassador for an explanation...
...week's end, Egypt admitted that the Athos had indeed sailed from Alexandria harbor a fortnight earlier, but denied supplying the arms because "the international situation does not permit Egypt to deprive itself of modern armaments." The French, feeling at last that they now had a case against Nasser, were considering taking the Athos case to the U.N. Security Council...
Bent over his drafting board at an Army Engineers' installation in Alexandria, Va., Private Norman L. Hickey, 27, felt a sudden tightening around his chest -"as though someone had been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky...