Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jernigan hails from Newport R.I., and for the past two summers he has attended the squash camp Fish holds there. But he said Fish was not the primary attraction of the school...
...adds: "Recruiting is becoming more and more important, but you don't want to get tacky Dave's approach is slightly different. He runs a squash camp during the summer in Newport. R.I that a lot of top juniors come to. It's not recruiting per se, but he's trying to attract them...
...spectators start lining up a few minutes before dawn outside the Newport, R.I., Superior Court. Only about 80 can hope to get seats for the proceedings, which begin three hours later, but the whole nation is being offered nightly peeks inside the paneled courtroom. Television cameras are recording the trial, and excerpts have been shown on network news programs. Viewers have not been disappointed: in its opening weeks, "the case of the sleeping beauty" has lived up to its billing as an Agatha Christie drama in real life...
Gerhard Meier, an internist who examined Sunny when she was taken to Newport Hospital on Dec. 21, 1980, suffering her second coma, said that she had "low blood sugar and an incredibly high insulin level," which is considered an abnormal combination. The defense had hoped that pretrial depositions from lab technicians would substantiate a mix-up in tests indicating that the insulin might have been manufactured in Sunny's body after her admission. But on the stand the technicians said they had been "confused" by defense questions in the pretrial testimony, and insisted that the tests actually had been...
...much of their life revolved around Clarendon Court, the ten-acre estate on Newport's Millionaires' Row that they acquired in 1970. The 20-room mansion was somewhat small by Newport standards, and the Von Billows were not birthright members of the "summer colony," but it was not long before they were pillars of local society. They entertained on a lavish scale. Says one frequent guest: "You go to John Doe's house for an informal visit and expect a gin and tonic. At Sunny's house, you got imported champagne." The party celebrating Alexander...