Word: norfolk
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...Norfolk & Western Railway, which reaches from Norfolkthrough the West Virginia coal fields up to southern Ohio is one of the nations best-run railroads. A ride over its main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced...
...unusual," he remarked, "but it is never out of place." A Republican, Hoffman was born in New Jersey, but spent his long career as a trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words. Judge Hoffman ruled in case after case that Virginia's much-imitated pupil-placement system-a Governor-appointed state board with sweeping powers to locate students in specific schools-was an evasive effort to keep schools segregated. In February 1959, Norfolk...
...Norfolk, the present often meets the past with a loud clang. Daily, the old Southern attitudes clash with the bustle of a boom town. Once just a sleazy, rollicking seaport, Norfolk is now bigger and far busier than Virginia's capital city of Richmond. The U.S. Navy is the most important fact in Norfolk's life (indeed, the U.S. Government provides 40% of Norfolk's payroll)-but many of the city's citizens have never quite got over the feeling that for years prompted them to post "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed" signs. Part of downtown...
Nowhere is Norfolk's quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...Virginia, where "massive resistance" has slowly turned to a "containment" policy of local option. One impetus: the experience of Norfolk, which closed all high schools in 1958 to avoid integration. One out of five students got no schooling at all, reported three University of North Carolina sociologists last week, and hundreds of parents felt "inconvenience and despair." Virginia's Pupil Placement Board has begun voluntarily assigning Negroes to white schools. Some 150 Negroes will be integrated this fall...