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CHARLES G. MICHAL Newport News...
...nuclear-powered carrier Nimitz, now under construction at Newport News, Va., was estimated to cost $427 million when work began in mid-1968. Design was not complete when the contract was signed. Some deliveries of parts were late, and the builder's costs went up. Overruns now exceed $116 million, and the Navy has no choice but to settle up. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., owned by the Houston-based conglomerate Tenneco, is the only yard in the U.S. big enough to put together carriers of the Nimitz class...
...resigning the diocese," Bishop Sheen says. "I am not resigning work. I am not retiring. I am regenerating." His appointment by Rome as titular Archbishop of Newport, on the tiny island of Wight off the English coast, is but a traditional gesture and will claim none of his time. Instead, he plans to return to New York to write, lecture and take up his interrupted career as the Catholic TV evangelist through a syndicated weekly program...
Club president Dave Zucconi, a 35-year old Brown graduate. anchors a fast, elusive backfield which includes All-American fullback Bill Mullin. and Mike Diffily. another All-American, leads a rugged scrum. The Bruins trounced Newport. 28-0, last week, and the Brown "B" squad lost narrowly to the first Tufts fifteen...
...project, which will cost $40 million initially, had an unusual beginning. At first, Gussie Busch planned to build a brewery at Newport News, ten miles away from Williamsburg. He sought out his old friend Win Rockefeller and assured him that the brewery would in no way dilute Williamsburg's colonial flavor. Rockefeller agreed, and said that he would not mind a bit if the plant were even closer -say, on a 2,500-acre tract that the corporation owned within musket shot of the restored city. Soon after, Busch discovered that the soil at Newport News would not support...