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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...
...Connell, who recently moved to New Hampshire from Arlington, Mass., thinks "it's a fine idea. I'd like it very much if Harvard decides to come up here...
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...heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...