Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confusion Compounded. Early in the week intelligence reports to the vacation White House in Newport, R.I. convinced the President that it was time to make the U.S. position unmistakably clear. U.S. Navy destroyers were escorting Nationalist supply ships to the three-mile limit off Quemoy, but the Nationalists were being clobbered on the beaches (see FOREIGN NEWS) by Communist artillery. It was not impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over...
Thursday will be taken up by a trip to Newport, R.I., where the delegates will be taken out to sea on U.S. and Canadian destroyers to watch the America Cup Challenge. A news conference and panel-discussion open to the public are scheduled for Friday, and Saturday's banquet will close the meeting...
...tension showed plainest in his golf game, which he generally plays in the 80s with a concentration that banishes all other concerns. Though the rubbernecking crowds that bothered him last year were banned from the Newport Country Club this year, Ike's golf seemed to suffer from the stares of newsmen, who can watch the first six holes from the clubhouse. Press Secretary James Hagerty smilingly asked reporters not to follow the games too closely, but the ninth hole, a par four right by the clubhouse, continued to be a psychological sand trap worse than the course...
...midweek, from President Eisenhower's vacation residence in Newport, R.I., U.S. Secretary of State Dulles read off his -stern warning to Red China (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Moscow the Soviet press blustered that, if the U.S. and Red China came to blows, Russia would help Peking "with everything at its disposal." Peking itself, in a move clearly designed to lend color to future charges of "aggression" by the U.S., proclaimed that henceforth the limit of its territorial waters would be not three but twelve miles. This would mean, if the Reds could make it stick, that all of Quemoy...
...competition to choose the U.S. boat that this month will defend the America's Cup -world's most prestigious sailing trophy -against the British challenger Sceptre. Last week, as the final trials of the four 12-meter yachts began in open ocean ten miles off Newport, R.I., the two took over. Cornelius ("Corny") Shields was at the wheel of the spanking-new Columbia for the all-important start and the windward legs, and Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr. was principal skipper of the 19-year...