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...most voters were rural. 65 per cent of the Old Dominion's population lives in the urban corridor which slashes diagonally across the state from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., on south through Fredericksburg to Richmond, and then down into the densely-populated complex around the Navy installations at Norfolk. At the same time that the Byrd Organization has trouble in this area, its traditional margins in Southside have been severely cut by the two-year old Virginia Conservative Party, a fringe group which seems to feel that ultra-conservatism is not ultra enough...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: The End of Byrd-Land | 12/8/1966 | See Source »

...income Negroes to move to even meaner slums. Because the Negro urban population has almost doubled since 1950, the ghettos are spreading. Negroes now constitute 27% of the population in Chicago, 37% in St. Louis, 39% in Detroit, 40% in Birmingham, 41% in New Orleans and Baltimore, 24% in Norfolk and 63% in Washington. Worried about being surrounded by Negroes, most whites flee to the suburbs when Negroes move into an urban neighborhood; there, barely 4% of all residents are Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT THE NEGRO HAS-AND HAS NOT-GAINED | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Damredub at 100-8. For the last race at England's Newbury track, the lady picked Blazing Sky at 7-2 to win the six-furlong Theale Maiden Stakes. Sure enough, Blazing Sky came breezing across to take it by four lengths. "Ah!" cried the Duchess of Norfolk, 50, wife of the realm's premier duke. "How I like Newbury!" Indeed, Newbury had been very kind to her. On a wager of 70?, her ladyship collected $7,804.34, the tote jackpot, by backing the winners in all six races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania and Central's request to merge, has ordered that the bigger line continue current freight interchanges with the smaller railroads in order to guarantee their revenues. The three small roads are destined to eventually end up in a second merger that will link them with the Norfolk & Western and C. & O.-B. & O. in a system as big as the Penn Central. The suspicion is that the smaller railroads, which do not oppose the Penn Central merger, are actually maneuvering to get better terms in the merger of the remaining lines. So thought the court's majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Merging at Milk-Train Speed | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...others: Boston & Maine, Delaware & Hudson, Reading, Central of New Jersey, Western Maryland, Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Merging at Milk-Train Speed | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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