Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major Surgery. By last week the aluminum revolution was looking a good deal less robust. With the second round| of trial races under way in the waters off Newport, R.I.-the Cup had been postponed a year to give designers time to work with their new technology -wood looked as good as ever...
Today at 34, Hancock heads the most sought-after jazz combo in the U.S. No more warming up the audience for the headliners at all-too-infrequent concert dates. With two Carnegie Hall appearances at this week's Newport Jazz Festival in New York, Hancock kicks off a major headlining tour that will include concerts in such diverse locales as Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati and Tokyo. For his current record company, Columbia, he turned out an LP album, Head Hunters, which as of last week had sold 700,000 copies. That is more than many a hot rock act sells...
...eclectic lineup at this week's Newport Jazz Festival is emphatic proof of the new unity among jazz, rock, the blues, soul, even the pop song. A single event at the Roseland Ballroom, for example, will offer both the sophisticated big-band arrangements of Harry James and the Latin style of Tito Puente. At Carnegie Hall, Pianist Keith Jarrett will spin forth some of the most elegant, technically proficient, classically tinted jazz since Art Tatum. On another night, Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton and Pianist Teddy Wilson will mix it up with Drummer Buddy Rich and Bassist Milt Hinton in what...
...Treasury $3.5 billion over the next decade. Though the bases are scattered through 32 states, the economic blow has fallen hardest on New England; nearly half of the 74,000 jobs wiped out or transferred by the cutbacks were located in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The closings of the Newport Naval Station and Quonset Point Naval Air Complex and the exodus of a 30-destroyer fleet have lowered the personal income of Rhode Island's citizens by $307 million a year-a loss about equal to the economic damage wreaked in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky by this spring...
...Walker, the 16-year-old high school sensation from Newport, R.I., won the high jump going away, but stopped at 6 feet, 8 inches instead of challenging the meet record...