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...Newport, R. I., Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announced a series of regional "seminars," to take place in 14 or 15 large cities during November. The seminarians will include Cabinet members and other Administration officials. Al though the conferences are billed as nonpolitical, they will actually be sounding boards to extol Administration accomplishments in the domestic area...
Beginning with George Washington, who tarried for a week in 1790 at Mrs. Almy's boardinghouse, 17 U.S. Presidents have taken their ease amid the salt air and rarefied society of Newport, R.I. So upper-crusty was Newport in the old days that, according to local legend. President Millard Fillmore was snubbed not only by the town's residents but by its footmen as well. Last week John Kennedy, enjoying the first real rest of his nine months in office, became Newport's 18th resident President...
...Newport is not what it once was. Although the massive, gingerbread homes of the opulent are still there, tourism and riotous jazz festivals have distorted the old style and spirit. Yet, among the get-away-from-it-all homes that Jackie and Jack Kennedy have used since he became President (Virginia's Glen Ora. Papa Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion, and the Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers...
...makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk was in such demand that fans shouting his name booed a modern combo off the stage, threw beer bottles and overturned TV cameras in a riot that approximated the American shambles at Newport. The Daily Telegraph calls Bilk ''almost a folk hero...
...narrow-spectrum penicillin, they treat a wide variety of diseases. Until 1953, according to Government charges, Cyanamid's aureomycin and Pfizer's terramycin accounted for 92% of the broad-spectrum market. At that point, all three defendants, plus New York's Heyden Chemical Co. (now Heyden-Newport Chemical Corp.), applied for patent rights on tetracycline, a new antibiotic made with an aureomycin base...