Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ago, intimates knew that Eden had reached a decision. The secret was closely held, eluded all the London press. No one even suspected when on Tuesday Eden and his wife boarded a train at London's Liverpool Street station and journeyed 100 miles north into the bleak Norfolk flatlands to see Queen Elizabeth at her country estate at Sandringham. There Eden told her of his decision...
...basketball team will seek its fourth straight victory tonight at 7 p.m. when it meets the Norfolk Prison quintet (in Norfolk...
...squad has previously defeated M.I.T., the U.S.S. Myles C. Fox team, and the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. The game against Norfolk Prison will be its last contest before the Christmas vacation...
Disintegration of Order. Because of the civil-rights issue, the cautious processes of Virginia have become confused and troubled. Says Fletcher Dozier, grizzled Negro waiter in Norfolk's Commodore Maury Hotel: "I've lived here most of my life. I always liked the white people and I think they liked me. I wasn't called a nigger until I was 26 years old-and that was by a Canadian woman in Boston. But after a thing like this Supreme Court decision, you get to know who are your friends and who aren...
Harry Byrd's segregation program has met opposition even within his organization. Says Byrd-dogging Political Leader William Lee Prieur Jr. of industrial, Navy-base Norfolk: "After the program came out, I got the Norfolk legislators in here, and we agreed we just couldn't go along. I called Harry Byrd and I said, 'You're wrong on this. We can't support you.' He said, 'The people of Virginia will never accept desegregation. I'm going to resist this as long as I can.' " Says Norfolk's Democratic Mayor...