Word: norfolk
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Chesapeake Bay is one of the world's great waterways. In effect, it is one huge harbor. Within its sheltered waters, Baltimore grew into a major port, and the U.S. Navy as early as 1917 picked Norfolk as its chief East Coast base. But its mouth, from Cape Charles on the north to Cape Henry on the south, is 13 miles across, and until a few years ago it did not occur to anyone that it could be bridged. Getting from one side to the other meant a H-hour ferry ride or a roundabout inland route of some...
...seem to matter so much until 1953, when the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to abandon its freight and commuter ferry across the bay as too expensive and too slow. The whole Delmarva Peninsula took fright. So did the Virginia legislature, which appointed a committee to study the problem. Norfolk, which was in the midst of an effort to transform itself into something better than a sleazy shore-leave resort for 70,000 sailors, gave the project enthusiastic support. It took time. But by 1960, the bridge commission, headed by Eastern Shore Businessman Lucius Kellam, had floated a $200 million bond issue...
...Norfolk, the bridge-tunnel is only a spectacular addition to its redevelopment program, which will be complete in another five years. Already the results are impressive. More than 181 acres of slums, amounting to roughly 85% of Norfolk's whole downtown area, have been knocked down and replaced with some $42 million worth of new buildings. Last week plans for a $100 million medical center were announced. A grassed and tree-lined pedestrian mall has replaced Main Street. The world's largest coal-loading dock has been built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and savings and loan...
...unseemly squabble continued even as the body of General MacArthur moved toward its final resting place in Norfolk, Va., where his mother was born. There, city fathers had restored a 114-year-old former courthouse and designated it the MacArthur Memorial. The walls were inscribed with passages from famed MacArthur speeches. Family and friends watched in silence as the casket was slowly placed in the cool crypt beneath the rotunda. And then the tomb was sealed...
Jackdaw No. I comes in an envelope the size of a legal pad. It has words: eight close-printed pages describing everything from Nelson's birth in a Norfolk parsonage to his burial in St. Paul's. And to go with the words are eleven graphic exhibits-a map, a battle plan, paintings and a detailed cutaway drawing of Nelson's flagship Victory, plus facsimiles of a crucial Nelson memorandum of the London Times of Nov. 7, 1805, and of ten signal flags by which Nelson told his fleet in code, ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY...