Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately $200,000 will be given to the Physical Research Endowment Fund from the estate of Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis Professor of Natural Philosophy, emeritus, the Norfolk Probate Court ruled yesterday...
...number of commercial planes in use soared from 674 to some 1,300, but the air is also filled with thousands of private and military planes. When bad weather slows landings and takeoffs, the traffic problem becomes dangerously acute over the nation's four busiest airways: Boston-Norfolk, New York-Chicago, San Francisco-San Diego, Seattle-Portland, Ore. Planes bound for New York are often held up for an hour in Cleveland until the congestion over Manhattan can be ended. Delays are not only irritating to passengers, but costly to airlines. "Stacking" (i.e., circling, awaiting landing permission) costs airlines...
Wind & Flame. The following day Hazel made her crashing entrance into the U.S., ripping at fishing piers and crumpling bungalows along the Carolina coast. Eighty big Navy vessels fled to sea from Norfolk, Va., while military planes scrambled for safe airports as far away as Kansas. In Washington the General Services Administration, prudent and economical, ordered flags hauled down from most federal buildings; one left up on the Capitol was whipped to shreds. Chicken houses in rural Maryland collapsed by the hundreds, and incubator stoves set the wreckage on fire. The windy night was rosy with flame, and terrified, liberated...
...horse-lovers have had more trouble getting in than a fishmonger's daughter trying to marry the Prince of Wales. A man needed more than the cash and the proper clothes; his social background had to shine pure and proud under the fierce scrutiny of the Duke of Norfolk and his committee of twelve inquisitors. Ever since Ascot was founded by Queen Anne in 1711, court rules have governed admission to the royal enclosure. And since Britain's Sovereign heads the Church of England (which frowns on divorce), the duke and his minions never tolerated divorced persons...
Last week Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, announced that Ascot would relax its rigid rules. From now on, participation in a divorce action will not be grounds for automatic exclusion from the royal enclosure. The same old rigid rules would still govern admission to the patch of ground immediately before the Queen's box, known as the "Queen's Lawn." And now that the big barrier is down, said the duke, the size of the royal enclosure will be doubled...