Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Hampton area-Norfolk with its massive shipyards, Virginia Beach, Newport News, and Hampton-at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay has all the problems of any industrial urban area of the nation. Despite cooperation along the picket lines in an anti-racist strike at the shipyards two years ago, tension was high between working class whites and blacks last summer...
...Everly Brothers, Don (32) and Phil (30), whose tight harmonies and sharp rhythms in big sellers such as Wake Up, Little Susie influenced the early Beatles, seemed to be washed up by 1960. Since January, though, their bookings have picked up handsomely. They have performed at the Newport Folk Festival and the Fillmore West, and will tour Europe next month...
...Down at Newport Beach, Wayne also makes it livable for the most number of people. Out in Newport Bay bobs his boat, Wild Goose II. Lesser men would have a yacht; Wayne's craft is a converted minesweeper. His house overflows with memorabilia and sentimental tributes from institutions as far apart as Good Housekeeping and the U.S. Marines. His collection of Hopi Indian kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams...