Word: newporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard is building radically new generations of gas-turbine-powered destroyers and big helicopter assault ships, has petitioned a federal court in Los Angeles for a ruling that in effect would permit the company to halt construction of the assault ships on Aug. 1. Similarly, the giant Newport News shipyard, a subsidiary of Tenneco, has asked a federal court for permission to stop work on a guided-missile cruiser. On its own, the Newport News yard, which has been building Navy ships since 1897, has suspended construction of the most advanced U.S. nuclear carrier, the Carl Vinson...
Since Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974, Pat has left San Clemente only occasionally: a few shopping trips to nearby Newport Beach and Los Angeles; infrequent dinners with Dick at local restaurants; one public appearance, alone, at ceremonies naming a public grade school after her; a visit to China with her husband; a theater outing in New York with Daughter Tricia Cox (who, on learning of her mother's stroke, headed at once for California...
...well as Keith Jarrett and George Benson. Jazz disks that once were counted hot numbers if they sold 20,000 copies now find a market for 200,000 or more. There is scarcely a major college campus that does not offer a jazz course or harbor student combos. The Newport and Monterey jazz festivals have become the Bayreuth and Glyndebourne of jazz in the U.S.?and attract knowledgeable, sophisticated crowds...
...young Gilbert Stuart, that precocious son of a Rhode Island snuff grinder, who created a stir in Newport even in his teens, has also departed for London. He is only 20 and his future cannot be predicted, but his talent is evident in his youthful portrait of Mrs. John Bannister and her son. Another unpredictable talent is that of John Trumbull, a year younger than Stuart and born to wealth (as Stuart was not). Trumbull's father. Governor of Connecticut, recognized his son's precocity and enrolled him as a third-year student at Harvard at 15, then...
...York, with its Newport Jazz Festival, has sapped most of jazz's interesting performers...