Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last game on Saturday a tired Harvard team had plenty of excuses for bowing 3-0 to the Norfolk Rugby Club in a sloppily played match...
...Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that by century's end, one concrete conurbation will reach from Portland, Me., to Norfolk, Va., in the East, another from the Mexican border to San Francisco in the West...
...provided new competition. A long about with the International Longshoremen's Association was at last somewhat abated, if not resolved, with a new contract. Railroad problems in the '60's caused the Authority to become embroiled in the now-famous rail rate parity case, which had previously enabled Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Baltimore to receive more advantageous rates to and from the Midwest. Recent mergers have not favored Boston, and a dramatic example of railroad trouble occurred this winter when Boston was unable to ship government wheat to India because the two city's grain elevators, both leased by railroad companies...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...
...also a sign that the political situation in Virginia is finally changing. Voter turnout is increasing, and not only because of recent increases in the number of Negro voters. Virginia's population is growing rapidly in suburban areas around. Washington and the Norfolk-Newport News areas; new voters in these areas do not care for the Machine's country courthouse politicians...