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...least one coal company looked to the courts to reopen its mines. "Industrial anarchy," charged Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. "Everyone is the victim, but shameful wildcats go on." In fact, only the coal companies and such coal-carrying railroads as the Chessie System and Norfolk and Western have so far been hurt. The fuel's major users-electric utilities, coke plants and steel mills-maintain 23-to 90-day stockpiles, enough to ride out a short strike...
GRACE FLOWERS, 31, made her society debut in Norfolk in 1964; soon after, she marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Georgia. Now she is an aide at Democratic Party headquarters in Atlanta. When she witnessed "up close" the black-white struggle in the Deep South, she could no more remain passive, she says, than could her ancestor, Declaration Signer Edward Rutledge of South Carolina. After the civil rights battles of the '60s, Flowers was dismayed by the wave of assassinations and "the concentration of so much power in so few hands and so much secrecy during the Nixon...
...British forces burn Virginia port of Norfolk...
...long as the Colonies have almost no naval forces available, New York is virtually indefensible against strong sea and land attack. Worse, whether it is finally occupied or not, it can easily be destroyed by naval fire, as Falmouth in the Maine District was set ablaze last year and Norfolk, Virginia, was burned down in January. If New York citizens were less notably Loyalist (an estimated two-thirds of the city is owned by Tories), Howe's gunners could reduce the city to ruin...
Despite such controversies, the thousands of messengers did not go to the dome-topped Scope Convention Hall in Norfolk to argue. They went for song and sermons and uplift. They went for the "Joggers Jubilee" and a concert by the Anita Bryant Singers. The back-slapping men in plaid jackets, the women in bouffant hairdos and red-white-and-blue dresses, feel good-feel almost evangelical-about a church that is strong and successful and middleclass. For all its hierarchical looseness, the Southern Baptist empire extends to scores of colleges, newspapers and other holdings. The budget to be voted...