Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1880s, the Vanderbilts, Astors and Oelrichses, with gold-plated silverware and shiploads of newly immigrated servants, invaded the quiet Rhode Island village of Newport, threw up enormous 50-room houses that rivaled European chateaux in size if not in taste. As more nouveaux riches arrived, Bailey's Beach became the playground for the new millionaires, private docks gave shelter to large yachts during the summer, and ladies sipped champagne under parasols while watching their white-flanneled husbands play tennis on grass courts...
Today most of the mansions stand as museums of past glory and hors d'oeuvres are apt to be served by caterers rather than servants, but third-and fourth-generation scions still keep the banners flying high. On a sunny day at Bailey's Beach, 15 Cushings can be seen at one time, flanked by Drexels, Auchin-closses and Van Alens. Neither high taxes, lack of servants, nor the Newport Jazz Festival can drive them out from behind their wrought-iron gates and brick walls...
Having dissolved his bestselling co-authorship with Charles W. Bailey II (Seven Days in May, Convention), in this novel Author Knebel sets out alone into the well-trampled shrubbery of Washington. That way lies, literally, madness. President Mark Hollenbach, after three brilliant years in the White House, begins to develop some peculiar ideas. Convinced that a mysterious "they" are out to get him, he wants to throw an F.B.I, wiretap on every single telephone conversation in the U.S., to be taped and stored in computers, so he can spot conspiracies against himself. He conceives of a grand union...
...number one match, Penn's big Bailey Brown downed Chum Steels, 6-4, 6-2. Steele managed to break Brown's powerful serve several times, but his own serve wasn't kicking effectively enough on the hard surface...
Each case has brought another examination of security procedures, and two trials last week at the Old Bailey were no exception. In one, Aviation Ministry Engineer Frank Bossard, 52, was sentenced to 21 years for photographing and selling, since 1961, heaps of missile data to the Soviets for $14,000. In another case, a Defense Ministry clerk. Sergeant Percy Allen, 33, got ten years for peddling data on Israeli arms to Iraq and Egypt...