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There was, of course, exuberance aplenty. Flags were flying and horns blasting as 1,000 vessels?tugs and schooners, runabouts and yachts, skiffs and even a Chinese junk?jammed Norfolk harbor. Pier 12 was packed tight as an estimated 15,000 friends and relatives shouted, waved their hands and flourished banners. Proclaimed one: WELCOME BACK TO THE KNOWN WORLD. Another: HEY! BIG DADDY. A smiling woman sported a T shirt emblazoned: WELCOME HOME STEVE...
Gladys had plentiful suitors with blue blood and fortunes too: the Crown Prince of Germany, three noble Romans, the venerable Duke of Norfolk, who got down on all fours at her order to play dog, and the Duke of Connaught, the late Queen Victoria's son, whom she dismissed in a letter full of "cruel and seething words...
...virtually unanimous in their desire to keep their families together, even though most of them have a lower standard of living than they would enjoy back home. "It's a struggle, and there are lots of frustrations," says Patty Hall, 21, wife of Airman Walter Hall of Norfolk. "We don't have the money to go out at all, and I wash all our clothes by hand because the base launderette is too expensive. But I wouldn't trade this life for anything." A number of wives do find work, often at U.S. bases...
Since the nation's first test-tube baby clinic opened at the Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia, some 3,000 women have applied for admission. So far, only 35 have been selected for the treatment (cost: $3,500 to $4,000), in which an egg is removed from a patient's ovary and fertilized in a Petri dish with her husband's sperm, then inserted into the uterus...
Even the Old Farmer's Almanac could not have foreseen it all. Barely a trace of snow in New England, yet mounds of it down in Dixie. Norfolk, Va., accumulated twice as much snow as Burlington, Vt, or Portland, Me., and about one-third more than Chicago. Florida too was taking its licks. In early March, temperatures plummeted below freezing, putting a squeeze on the citrus crop, and tornadoes cut across the southeast part of the state. Up North folks were trying to decide whether to pack away mufflers and mittens after spring-in-December readings...