Word: va
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ARLINGTON, VA. (pop. 178,500), historic site of Robert E. Lee's mansion, National Cemetery with graves of Civil War generals, and of 3,802 Negro refugees from Confederacy, Tomb of Unknown Soldier World Wars I and II; a pleasant bedroom suburb of Washington, D.C.; many Federal Government workers from North, many new white refugees from Washington's integrated school system, now 73% Negro...
WILLIAM TEMPLE STEVENS Charlottesville, Va...
ERNEST T. POOL Springfield. Va...
...missile-launching capability, powerful enough to make long-range patrols into western Atlantic waters. In the last six months of 1957, the U.S. Navy recorded 186 separate reports of what may have been Soviet subs. Only last week, in the Navy's secret ASW plotting room at Norfolk, Va., a black, diamond-shaped marker indicating a "goblin"-a Russian submarine-went up on the wall-to-wall map. The goblin's position: perilously near Iceland, where NATO maintains an important airbase...
...jump: a $1 billion rise in private-industry payrolls, plus another $1 billion increase in the federal payroll. ¶ Housing starts rose to an annual rate of almost 1,160,000 in July, 14% higher than the rate in July 1957 and the highest in 2½ years. FHA, VA and conventionally financed housing all shared in the increase, which was particularly noticeable in the North Central and Western states...