Word: savannah
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Norfolk, home of the world's largest naval base, may have launched a thousand ships, but it has never christened much, in the way of the arts. The city (pop. 330,000) lacks the colonial quaintness of nearby Williamsburg, the antebellum allure of Savannah or Charleston's successful new Spoleto Festival. But in 1975, Norfolk acquired some culture: the Virginia Opera Association. The founders were a group of wealthy, energetic women who took over the old 1,800-seat Center Theater, a concrete WPA-era pile blessed only with good acoustics. They pushed ticket sales hard...
...state of being--the hum of the tires, the turning of the passengers asleep in the back seat, the constant mirror check for state police, the dashboard light casting eerie shadows across the driver's face, the A.M. radio pulling in music from Nashville, New York City, Tulsa, Cleveland, Savannah. The mirage of Fort Lauderdale was far behind, left to reform in the distance. For now anyway, we were in motion, and that was enough
...Commander in Chief, Jimmy Carter has plunged underwater on a nuclear attack submarine, climbed into the sky in an E-4A Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
...Cove Point plant is only one leg of an immense project known as El Paso I. The other leg is a terminal now under construction at Elba Island, near Savannah, Ga., that this summer will begin taking in 350 million cu. ft. of liquefied Algerian gas daily. The two terminals together will receive 1 billion cu. ft. a day, a rate sufficient to heat the homes of 9 million Americans...
...defends a young Jew accused of murder. The victim is a 14-year-old Christian girl, and the defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during the trial. Here Kluger (author of last year's widely praised Simple Justice, an account of the Supreme Court's 1954 anti-segregation decision) borrows from history by making inventive use of the Leo Frank case. Frank was an Atlanta Jew - the manager of a pencil factory...