Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned down matches with both Billie Jean King and Chris Evert-with purses of $10,000 and $50,000. "There won't be any match until the price is right and that means $100,000 plus." Meanwhile, Riggs applied to play in a women's tournament in Newport, R.I., this summer. He said he would claim discrimination "if they do not accept...
...Newport Beach, Calif...
Some are harder hit than others. New England will suffer the most. In Rhode Island, where the U.S. Navy is the biggest employer, more than 21,000 people will be thrown out of work with the closing of the Newport naval base because of lack of facilities to handle today's huge aircraft carriers. In Massachusetts, 6,700 people will lose their jobs when the venerable Boston naval shipyard is closed because of inadequate docking facilities. Equally hard hit by the cuts is Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco. Of the 5,184 civilians slated to lose their jobs...
...suspects, Fred Pidge, 23 years old, of Waltham, and Francis B. De Meo, 30 years old, of Brookline, were apprehended April 12 by police in Newport News, Va., as they were allegedly attempting to burglarize a private home. Centrella said that the Virginia charges would probably be dropped "because the charges here are much more serious...
...cells into cancerous ones in test tubes, and the discovery has raised speculation that the type II herpes may be linked to genital cancers in humans. "It's like finding a guy with a gun in a building where a murder has been committed," says Alvin Glasky of Newport Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., the firm that developed isoprinosine. "The gunman is suspect, but you have to prove that he pulled the trigger...