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...Turnaround. In about nine years the Navy has tried to retrain 48,000 problem personnel, succeeded in restoring 14,000 to duty-enough to man four big aircraft carriers. Last week the Elliott psychology project was being studied at the Navy's two other retraining commands, Portsmouth, N.H. and Norfolk, Va., to see whether this rate can be bettered...
...practice, 20-54 is peacefully implemented not in the courts but in the local marriage-license bureaus. A test case arose in 1953, however, in which a white woman petitioned the courts in Portsmouth, Va. to annul her marriage to her Chinese sailor husband of 15 months...
...year ago. But in the past few weeks, FHA has started to dampen the boom. In Dallas last week, FHA announced that it would make no further firm commitments on purely speculative housing, i.e., with no buyer signed up. In 17 other areas, e.g., Fort Dix, N.J., Portsmouth, Ohio, Paducah, Ky., primarily where defense-stimulated expansion has mushroomed building too rapidly, FHA has also rationed the number of loans it will insure, sometimes cutting builders' applications by as much as 90%. Private bankers are also tightening up, pressing for shorter terms on private loans. Last week a group...
Lesser Evil. In Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...
...York, Frank Dudley Lawrence, owner of the Portsmouth (Va.) Merri-macs. filed a $250,000 damage suit in Federal Court against Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and 16 major-league teams for violating baseball's territorial protection rule. Although the rule makes no mention of TV, Lawrence insists that televising big-league games in minor-league cities is just as bad as the forbidden practice of bringing the games themselves to town: many minor-league clubs (including the Merrimacs) are going broke because their fans prefer big-league telecasts...