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...Britain, a group of marine archaeologists has more to work with. When they located the 16th century warship Mary Rose (which sank in 45 ft. of water off Portsmouth in 1545) and raised it in 1982, half of the hull had been buried under protective silt for centuries. The waterlogged structure, part of which had the consistency of wet cardboard, was moved into dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Base, and has since been sprayed constantly with a cold-water mist to keep the wood from disintegrating in the air. This treatment will continue for another three years, after which...
Last summer the girl from Portsmouth, Ohio, sang for the Pope in Rome. It was a performance of Mozart's "Coronation" Mass conducted by Herbert von Karajan. "We were in the apse of St. Peter's," she recalls. "The altar is off to our right and a little in front of us. After everyone is in place, the procession begins, and John Paul II is at the end, in full vestments. It's hard to speak of it as a musical occasion. It was a moment in life that one treasures. Oh, it was great to be there...
...abilities were evident at an early age. The daughter of a steelworker who had sung with a gospel quartet, Kathleen was the youngest of seven children, a diligent student growing up in a segregated but, as she remembers it, happy Portsmouth neighborhood. Even as a child singing in her Protestant church choir, she was something special. Remembers Voice Teacher Charles % Varney, who first heard her sing when she was eight: "It was a shock to me to hear this tiny little thing singing so beautifully. I went to her later and told her God had blessed her, and she must...
General Electric. Jacques Robinson, 37, was named in 1982 to run GE's lackluster video-products division in Portsmouth, Va., and set out to extend it to include a long list of products for home information and entertainment. His door, he said, was open to anyone with helpful ideas. One respondent was Howard R. Stevenson Jr., 48, a technical whiz since his high school days in Michigan. He had spent his entire professional life with GE, most of the time working on radar, but felt stifled. General Electric offered him the chance to move to Portsmouth, and he soon...
James F. Carrigan Portsmouth...