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...West Virginia primary campaign highballed into its final week like a Norfolk & Western coal train whistling across a trestle. Both candidates were on the ragged edge of exhaustion. Hubert Humphrey, rolling through the Alleghenies in his Scenicruiser bus, grabbed sleep in fitful catnaps between stops in coal-mining camps and mountaineer hamlets. Jack Kennedy virtually lost his voice, but doggedly kept up the campaign with weary smiles while his aides read his speeches...
...Norfolk, a police court judge fined two Negro college students $15 apiece for distributing handbills protesting against lunch-counter segregation...
Minor's Dram. In Norfolk, a father was fined $500 and sentenced to one month in jail for giving three ounces of whisky and half a can of beer to his six-week...
...born to illiterate parents on the dried cow-dung floor of a grass-roofed hut on the sisal (hemp) estate of Sir William Northrup McMillan, who, a local yarn has it, won his 34,000 acres of Kenya highlands with a throw of the dice in Nairobi's Norfolk Hotel...
After several sea appointments, Redmayne was selected to attend the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Va., in 1953. He remained on the staff as deputy secretary, and later secretary, after completing the course...