Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bich is best known for his fiasco in the 1970 America's Cup Race; his sloop France, which he captained, got lost in the fog off Newport. He speaks in aquatic terms even when describing his company: "We just try to stick close to reality, like a surfer to his board. We don't lean forward or backward too far or too fast. We ride the wave at the right moment." Bic is now skimming along the crest of a 72% sales increase over the past five years. The baron hopes that with the disposable Bic lighter another...
...longevity, other than his daily vitamins and late-morning sleep-or his remarkably carefree attitude about the whole thing. He has been smoking cigarettes, for example, since he was six, and has no intention of quitting. These days he is busy touring the college campuses, playing festivals like the Newport Jazz Festival, and invading major concert halls in such cities as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and, of course, New York. In between, he "rests up" in his modest, nine-room house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and sometimes lets his mind wander back over times gone...
...because his wife Martha wanted to get him out of politics. So far unexplained is the mystery surrounding Martha Mitchell's claim that only five days after the Watergate arrests, Steve King, now head of security for the Nixon committee, ripped a telephone off the wall of a Newport Beach, Calif., motel room where she and her husband were staying, threw her on a bed and held her while a doctor gave her an injection. She was cut badly enough on the hand in this fracas, the Washington Post reported last week, to require hospital emergency room treatment...
...from Algeria and perhaps Russia. One of the orders, for $269 million, went to General Dynamics; the federal share, which is less for advanced-technology ships like LNGS than for other models, is $64 million. The other order, for $298 million (federal share: $76 million) was bagged by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., a subsidiary of Tenneco. Plenty more is on the way: only one-sixth of the 300 ships called for by 1980 in the maritime bill have actually been ordered...