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...that all of 500,000 French troops had not been able to subdue Algeria even while holding cities, harbors, airfields, rail centers. Even the Navy, as it cruised the Mediterranean at will, had become highly sensitive to the difficulties of supplying the Sixth Fleet across 3,800 miles from Norfolk (sample statistic: 50,000 tons of fuel per month), not to mention the dangers of getting trapped in a landlocked sea in the event of any kind of atomic...
Virginia Beach, Va. was once a quiet seaside town where the middling rich of Princess Anne County and nearby Norfolk went to bathe and sun. But 25 years back, the quiet town was invaded. Garish clubs sprang up along the beach, and gambling tables ran far into the night, presided over by burly, heavy-set men in sharp suits and loud ties. The town's old inhabitants protested, but the local Kellam political machine blandly looked the other way. Six years ago one scrappy, stubborn real-estate man named Joseph Willcox Dunn finally got so mad that he started...
...next fall's major battle in the war of public-school desegregation. The court refused to review an order from a U.S. District Court judge compelling the Arlington County school board to admit to white schools the Negro students who have applied in a test case; Charlottesville, Norfolk and Newport News face similar orders. The result is to pit the power of the federal courts against the elaborate machinery of "massive resistance" enacted in 1956 and 1957 by the Virginia legislature under the spur of the state's political patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...nosed into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall...
...Navy plane whisked the young prince from Norfolk to Washington, where he was met at the airport by a full turnout from the Spanish embassy, headed by Royalist Ambassador Joseé Maria de Areilza. Also on hand was Newshen Win-zola McLendon of the Washington Post and Times Herald, who was all in a dither as she asked Juan Carlos what he thought of American girls. "Oh, very pretty," replied the prince gallantly. Winzola gushed later that his blue-green eyes had not only a twinkle, but "the LONGEST, CURLIEST lashes...