Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pageant honored Churchill; but Churchill also honored the pageant. For the occasion, directed in its inimitably British style by the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, consisted of a succession of crowns, swords, escutcheons, and every other encrustation of royal power-a power that is noble because it no longer rules but only inspires. In granting a royal funeral to a commoner, Britain expressed the fact that its trappings of autocracy have long ago been triumphantly absorbed by democracy-a pertinent fact in the 20th century...
...LAMBERT Norfolk...
...with Mergers. The best prospect for saving sickly lines is merger with more prosperous, freight-heavy carriers. Lately the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken a more lenient attitude toward mergers, approving in July one of the greatest rail linkups in U.S. history-the Norfolk & Western's absorption of five other lines. Now the ICC is considering 13 railroad mergers. The biggest deal by far would...
M.I.T. topped a strong field of 14 that included such unlikely schools as Old Dominion from Norfolk and McGill from Montreal. The Crimson, represented by Jim Lankton in "A" division and Bob Whitesides and Lange Rust in "B," finished sixth...
...Norfolk, Va., the estate of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who died in April at 84, was appraised at $2,131,941.89, bequeathed to his widow, Jean Faircloth MacArthur. Composed primarily of securities, it included 2,205 shares of G.M. (worth $180,258.75), Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority and Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel bonds (together worth $291,007), and 1,903 shares ($34,254) in Sperry Rand Corp., whose chairman he had been since...