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...across the Channel into German-occupied France. Some of the more than 5,000 ships accompanied by an additional 4,000 small craft of the invasion armada had already put to sea. On that June morning in 1944, screaming winds rattled the windows of the British naval headquarters near Portsmouth, where the D-day commanders were meeting. The rain, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower later recalled, lashed down in "horizontal streaks." A Royal Air Force meteorologist, however, cautiously predicted clearing skies for the next day, June 6. Eisenhower conferred with the generals and admirals gathered around him. He thought...
...combative diva, 45, is the darling of a huge public, a glamorous former schoolteacher from Portsmouth, Ohio, who possesses one of the loveliest voices in opera today. Thanks to her supple, dulcet soprano and winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in secondary roles that ordinarily do not make stars, parts like Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Battle's presence in a cast or with an orchestra practically guarantees a sold-out house; her albums, whether art songs...
Apart from the anti-incumbent trend, the results last week showed the contrasts and contradictions usual for a clutch of local contests. One exception: gay rights lost heavily in all three places they were put to a vote -- Cincinnati; Lewiston, Maine; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These are not exactly trend-setting cosmopolises, but the defeats extend an unbroken string of losses over several years that has gay activists worried. In most other areas, however, the results showed patterns were meant to be broken...
...Like Portsmouth, the Norfolk shipyard was not on the Pentagon's original list and did not at first take its late addition very seriously. The yard was founded in 1767 and built the first U.S. battleship, the Texas, and the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the Langley. The yard employs 10,000 workers and has seven dry docks that can handle any ship in the Navy...
...make sense," demanded Virginia Congressman Owen Pickett, "to close the only naval shipyard in a region that is the home port to 149 Navy ships, including five aircraft carriers?" In spite of the force of the argument, one member of the presidential commission said later, "If Norfolk or Portsmouth thinks we're not serious, they are kidding themselves." Courter, the commission chairman, told a press conference in Norfolk, "We're not here to terrorize the communities," but he added, "This is a very serious exercise...