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...single place embodies that search as vividly as Colonial Williamsburg, the painstakingly restored former capital of England's oldest and most prosperous colony in North America. It sits on a broad ridge between Virginia's James and York rivers, ten miles from Jamestown and 13 miles from Yorktown...
Within this 23-mile span, the U.S. colonial experience began and ended-ushered in by the bedraggled settlers at Jamestown in 1607 and shouldered out with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Geographically and historically, Williamsburg was a mid way point-where, almost simultaneously, colonial high living reached a gracious peak and the seeds of rebellion were born...
...Hoosier lore, with which he delights audiences. As Branigin expounds early Indiana history, Lieut. Colonel George Rogers Clark comes out a combination of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett; Clark's conquests of Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Cahokia sound only slightly less momentous than Saratoga, Trenton and Yorktown...
Suburban Outflow. By whatever name, what is happening in Virginia is enough to unstatus the quo from Accomac to Yorktown. Not only did the assembly approve a record two-year budget of $3.13 billion, up 27.5% from 1966-68; it also gave Godwin authority to borrow $81 million of it. If voters approve in a November referendum, Virginia for the first time this century will float a general obligation-bond issue, a routine fiscal expedient long employed by all but a scattering of states...
troops stationed in the country. An ar mada of 20 warships, including the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Ranger, has been positioned in the Sea of Japan off North Korea. And last week, after a hurried trip to Seoul by Special Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance, it became clear that South Korea is about to be shored up further with some of America's most advanced conventional weapons...