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...Richmond's neck (TIME, Sept. 27). Then a group of stockholders got an injunction postponing the vote on the deal. Last week, while the stockholders' meeting was recessed, another bee, of bumble proportions, buzzed in. The new arrival: Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, whose interests include the Portsmouth Steel Corp...
After the war the battered sub was moved to Portsmouth Navy Yard to be reduced to scrap, but the Korean war postponed that fate. Last year a group of citizens began a campaign to bring the U-boat to Chicago, Dan Gallery's home town. The Navy was agreeable, and on June 26 Junior was welcomed to Chicago. This week, if weather and Lake Michigan permit, Junior will be hauled ashore in a momentous engineering operation and lugged across South Lake Shore Drive (traffic will be halted for twelve hours) to her final berth at the museum...
Holifield introduced a letter from AEC chairman Lewis Strauss saying that two previous AEC-private-power contracts had cost far more than originally estimated. One plant built near Paducah cost $58 million more than estimates, with annual power charges $2,000,000 higher than expected; another built near Portsmouth cost $32 million above the estimates, with annual charges increased...
...June 5, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote, "our little camp [at Portsmouth, England] was shaking and shuddering under a wind of almost hurricane proportions." The worst June storm in 20 years raged over the Channel; already the invasion had been postponed a day, and now there seemed no choice but to delay for another fortnight, at least, until the tides were right again. Heavyhearted, Ike splashed through the rain to a fateful 4 a.m. meeting with his meteorologists and top commanders. An agonizing choice was posed by the latest forecast: a brief break in the storm, perhaps 24 hours...
Accompanied by Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 5, and Princess Anne, 3, rode to Portsmouth from London on an electric train. Confused because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia...