Word: newporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finest creative talents in a frantic effort to create a god. Perhaps someday, the public will understand this about Dylan and see his growth as a hope and as an opening. Until then, it is instructive to consider these essays, and reflect on how a folk-rock concert at Newport ended what millions of Americans will look back on as their spiritual and political virginity...
After the mines came the bombs and the shells. Offshore, the cruisers Newport News, Oklahoma City and Providence turned their guns on a petroleum tank near Haiphong. In the sky, flights of 150 to 175 warplanes, including big B-52 bombers, began a systematic pounding of bridges, barracks, trucks, barges, rail junctions and other military targets in North Viet Nam's Red River Valley heartland. Some of the raids struck within 60 miles of the Chinese border. Daily, sometimes almost hourly, loudspeakers on Hanoi's streets screeched instructions: "Take to your shelters. The enemy is near...
Died. Louis F. Budenz, 80, American Communist leader who turned against the party and informed on his erstwhile comrades; in Newport, R.I. A Catholic-educated Midwesterner, Budenz became sympathetic to the working class and involved himself in the labor movement of the '20s. In 1935 he joined the Communist Party and within five years was managing editor of the Daily Worker. He became disillusioned, he said, when he "learned the truth concerning the Communist conspiracy against America and Catholicism," and in 1945 he renounced the party to rejoin the Catholic Church. Later he was frequently called as a witness...
...Newport Beach, Calif., a wealthy community nestled between Los Angeles and San Clemente, has long been a kind of Republican stronghold-by-the-sea. Shortly after Richard Nixon moved into the White House, Newport Police Chief James Glavas telephoned a resident knowledgeable in G.O.P. affairs...
Resident: He is a lawyer in Newport Beach...