Word: newports
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...twist. The Von Bulow Affair II does just that. As before, there are the loyal maid with the German accent, the stepchildren who stand to inherit millions, the sleeping heiress who was allegedly the target of a murder attempt most foul, all set against the gilded backdrops of Newport, R.I., and Manhattan. But this time there is the promise of new and quirky characters, while the once icy defendant, lo and behold, seems to have come to life...
...This case has everything; it has money, sex, drugs; it has Newport, New York, and Europe; has maids, butlers, and a gardener," R.I. Assistant Attorney General Henry Gemma Jr., one of two prosecutors in the case, told The Boston Globe yesterday...
Navy Secretary John Lehman disclosed last month that the Navy had evidence that during the 1970s and early '80s Rickover received gifts worth "tens of thousands" of dollars, not only from General Dynamics but also from General Electric, Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co., all big Navy contractors. Among the presents: a $695 pair of diamond earrings mounted on 18-karat gold and a $430 jade necklace. Rickover says those baubles went to his wife, but that he passed most of the other "trinkets"-gold pendants, desk sets, ship models-on to Congressmen and then wives...
...empowered their secretaries to promise $5 million or $10 million as part of any billion-dollar loan package for Brazil or Mexico. To seal and celebrate big deals, bankers staged signing ceremonies, complete with champagne and caviar, in opulent settings, some times a British castle or a mansion in Newport...
Only four years ago Weld crossed the Atlantic alone in only 18 days, breaking the record for the 3000-mile. Plymouth, England-to-Newport, Rl race by more than two days...