Word: newports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then you ought to be at least a little fussy about which ones you drop. You shouldn't let on that you're not yet bored with anything more advanced than "21," the Plaza, the Colony Club, and Southampton. And Newport. Really. Now if one were bored with Arthur, Lincoln Center, and having one's hair done at Bergdorf's on Tuesday afternoon, that would be better...
Harry was an ever superbly tailored local banker, Edward a forty year old retired New York business man, unmarried also, who was spending the summer in Honey Lou's guest cottage. A "safe" man. And good single man for dinner parties--so many Newport ladies were between 2nd or 3rd or 4th husbands, and extra men were so valuable for dinner parties...
...G.I.s' yeoman performance, vital as it was, did nothing to cool the tempers of the striking longshoremen. At issue were 288 jobs at the U.S. port facility named Newport, being built four miles up the Saigon River to handle military shipments and relieve the choking congestion of Saigon port proper. From the beginning, Newport was planned as a wholly U.S.-operated military port, with American soldiers of the 71st Transportation Battalion doing the stevedoring and all the other work. The idea was to minimize pilferage, the chances of sabotage, and the risk of U.S. military equipment's falling...
...some of Newport's facilities were ready for use last August before the 71st arrived in Viet Nam. So the Army asked six Vietnamese stevedore companies to run Newport on a temporary basis with Vietnamese stevedores. To provide for transportation and meal allowances, the stevedores were paid from 50% to 60% more than the going rate in Saigon. The union, which supplied the men for the jobs, found this so attractive that it rotated the 288 jobs among some 2,000 of its members. And when the temporary, four-month contracts expired, the union decided that Newport...
Since 1958, surfing has become so fashionable and so ubiquitous that New York hippies and Nebraska teenagers can talk convincingly about "wiping out" on the Newport Beach "Wedge." Singing groups have accumulated fortunes by exploiting tenuous attachments to the sport...