Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), tanned...
Dear Child. In Alexandria, Va., Lisa Norling, 2, playing with a telephone dial, accidentally made a connection, held an animated conversation with the man on the other end until her father took the phone, learned that his daughter had direct-dialed a number in Sacramento. Calif...
Charleston, W. Va...
...though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds for half the cost, flunked what the President considers "the best test yet devised for insuring that a project is sound." So down...
...Allan J. Rosen, of Dunster House and New York City, a concentrator in Chemistry; Richard E. Rubenstein, of Adams House and Woodmere, N.Y., in History and Literature; Robert H. Socolow, of Kirkland House and New York City, a concentrator in Physics; William W. Sihler, of Lowell House and Norfolk, Va., a Government concentrator, and Sidney L. Shushan, of Lowell House and New Orleans, La., a concentrator in History...