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...finest navy the world had ever known, and its splendor was never more stirringly displayed. The year was 1897, the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the Royal Navy assembled at Spithead, off Portsmouth, for review. Decks scrubbed white, brasswork gleaming, wheelhouse glass sparkling, the ships stretched along the coast in four lines seven miles long. There were 173 in all, including more than 50 battleships. At the same time, 160 other units of the Queen's Grand Fleet were on patrol in every sea in the world...
...bona fide resident of Hamilton, Davis can avoid the cliches so common to "mood of the country" pieces, the kind made most famous by Haynes Johnson of the Washington Post and regurgitated with such predictability come the New Hampshire primary. ("The waitress poured another cup of coffee at the Portsmouth Diner and talk, as it tends to at this time of year, turned to politics...") Davis has a terrific feel for the mechanics of social rituals and hierarchies, and the best of Hometown uncovers a city only an insider could know. He tells of a widely believed rumor linking...
...would be a fitting happy-ever-after end to a crisis that at first seemed more comic opera than heavy drama. The Argentines hold the key to reaching this desirable resolution, for they can afford to be more flexible than the British. Certainly, the fleet won't return to Portsmouth without some kind of victory in pocket. The bottom line is that Britain cannot back down. And so, Argentina must...
Certainly the spirit is willing, and the means for reform near at hand. CBN, which Robertson founded in 1960 with $70 cash, one camera and a fading 1,000-watt station in Portsmouth, Va., has become a multimillion-dollar operation (1981 income: $68 million). By the mid-'70s, CBN had added two more owned-and-operated stations, in Atlanta and Dallas, to its Portsmouth base, but what really turned the electronic tide for Robertson was a satellite. CBN beat out its brethren by leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 2 satellite in April 1977, thus enlarging...
...Maine coast. With its frigate project 99 weeks ahead of schedule and $44 million under budget, the Iron Works is eyeing the Navy's new destroyer program. That could be its biggest contract ever. Congoleum, the proud parent company, has now moved its headquarters from Milwaukee to nearby Portsmouth, N.H. Construction of its new building, though, is slightly over budge and three months behind schedule. Maybe Congoleum should have had the Bath Iron Works build it. -By John S. DeMott Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Bath