Word: newports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newport. Curiously, the Democrats were getting some help from Dwight Eisenhower, too. In a week when the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Republican Governor of the nation's most populous state challenged him on foreign policy and national defense, when the Russians torpedoed the Geneva disarmament conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), and when the Gallup poll reported a sharp drop in his popularity (from 68% approval to 61%), Dwight Eisenhower announced that he was planning to go off to Newport, R.I. this week for a month's vacation...
...professional practitioners making a handsome living where there were perhaps half a dozen five years ago. Last week, in far from mute testimony that folk music is now grown up enough to have its own status symbols, some of the most popular of the artists turned up in Newport's Freebody Park for the city's second annual Folk Festival; others arrived in Berkeley, Calif, for a five-day festival that each day attracted 1,200 ardent fans...
According to experts, the basic cause of the bull market in folk music-which has been coming on ever since World War II-is the do-it-yourself trend: folk audiences, unlike jazz audiences, like to participate in the music they admire. At Newport last week, many spectators brought along banjos and guitars with their sleeping bags and sat around campfires on the beaches strumming far into the night. (In the last three years, U.S. banjo sales have increased...
...forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre, owned and skippered by a shrewd, affable, literary-minded salt named Carleton Mitchell...
...such a big way that the Germans are now recognized by many as Europe's most frenzied buffs. Last week the German jazz season was in full swing: thousands gathered in Berlin for the Amateur Jazz Festival, following a Frankfurt bash that made the U.S.'s Newport Festival seem like a Sunday musicale...