Word: shenandoah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snow and subfreezing temperatures do little to cool the enthusiasm of the hardy horse players who jam West Virginia's Charles Town Race Course each day during the long winter: 30,000 were on hand last week. Pockets bulging with Mason jars of moonshine, Shenandoah farmers huddled over their tout sheets; Baltimore businessmen traded tips with pin-striped Washington politicians. For hundreds of other two-buck bettors from New York and Philadelphia, the day at the races had begun at 6 a.m., when they boarded special buses for a five-hour trek to the track...
...between the two World Wars, the skies were filled with flying sausages. The great Graf Zeppelin cruised over the Arctic Circle and around the world, traveling more than a million miles before it was decommissioned in 1937. But after three disasters, when the U.S. Navy's dirigibles Shenandoah, Akron and Macon were wrecked with a total loss of 83 lives, the U.S. abandoned its rigid-airship program. The spectacular explosion of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst in 1937 put a final end to the dream of Zeppelin...
...resurrection is the work of David E. Archie, 35, an Iowa journalist and part-time history buff. Last year, poring over back copies of Harper's Weekly in search of picture material for The lowan, a bimonthly magazine that he publishes in Shenandoah, Archie decided that Harper's authentic record of the Civil War might bear repetition during the war's centennial years. When a test mailing drew an enthusiastic response, he was in business...
Problems of the political future were still very much on Ike's mind when he landed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There his host was conservative Demo cratic Senator Harry Byrd, who has stubbornly refused to endorse his party's ticket, and all but urged his supporters to vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow...
...crash brought the argument full circle. Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N. (ret.), a survivor of the Shenandoah crash but still the champion of the big, rigid ships, hastened to accuse the Navy of "questionable wisdom" in building oversized, noncompartmented blimps, suggested that with modern construction methods rigid airships would be far safer. Blimp men were equally quick to defend their ships. Even though he still could not explain the crash. Captain Frederick N. Klein Jr., commanding officer of Fleet Airship Wing One (which includes the three remaining ZPGs, along with some smaller blimps), insisted: "I still think we have...