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Disintegration of Order. Because of the civil-rights issue, the cautious processes of Virginia have become confused and troubled. Says Fletcher Dozier, grizzled Negro waiter in Norfolk's Commodore Maury Hotel: "I've lived here most of my life. I always liked the white people and I think they liked me. I wasn't called a nigger until I was 26 years old-and that was by a Canadian woman in Boston. But after a thing like this Supreme Court decision, you get to know who are your friends and who aren...
...railroads: Union Pacific's first nine-months' earnings of $54,799,233 dropped nearly $3,000,000 below 1955's; Southern Pacific was down 11% for the first nine months to $42,633,167; Norfolk & Western rose 9% to $28,674,331; Pennsylvania dropped...
...year by doing more business with the help of John L. Lewis. After five years of debate, the Federal Maritime Board finally agreed last week to allow American Coal Shipping Inc., an export company formed by Lewis' U.M.W., seven coal producers and three coal-hauling railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, the Virginian) to lease 30 surplus Government-owned Liberty ships at an annual charter of $127,282 per vessel. They will use them to boost U.S. coal exports to Europe, South America and Japan. Though many shipping lines protested bitterly, Lewis and friends argued that the fleet will...
Died. Captain Alfred Hart Miles, U.S.N. (ret.), 72, co-author (with Royal Lovell, Charles A. Zimmerman)_ of the Annapolis song Anchors Aweigh; in a fall at his home; in Norfolk...
...sense of incongruity went with the anger. No sooner had Queen Elizabeth solemnly proclaimed "a case of great emergency" than she went off to the Duke of Norfolk's box at the fashionable race meeting that traditionally winds up Lon don's social season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many...