Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Holmes, Bear Creek's president, and Vice President David Stump, an escapee from Orange County, Calif. The job offered is for Bear Creek's in-house advertising agency. "When we set up the agency back in 1961," says Stump, "we had to keep it down in Newport Beach, Calif. We simply couldn't get anybody creative to come up here." Tunes have changed. The ad brought answers from all over. Deans of colleges. Poets. Newspaper editors. East Coast ad-agency directors. A philosophy major now teaching history. The creative director of a national rock-music corporation...
...This team had a lot to prove today,' Coach Doug Tashian said yesterday after his freshman soccer team used a new field alignment and a hat trick by Morgan Belford to trounce the Naval Prep Rams of Newport...
...Ladies Sing the Blues (featuring Big Maybelle, Little Esther, Albinia Jones, Miss Rhapsody and Linda Hopkins) is a must-have primarily because of an entire side by Big Maybelle (eight tracks), one of the most explosive singers of all time. Born Mabel Smith in 1924, she reduced the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival to ashes with her performance. Unfortunately she died after a long bout with heroin in 1972. She is sorely missed...
...Naval War College in Newport, R.I., this week, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown is to unveil officially the nuclear age's ultimate contingency plan. To some critics, it is a doomsday scenario, an outline for atomic war that could lead to the destruction of the human race. But to U.S. defense policymakers, Brown's speech represents an unavoidable rethinking of the unthinkable: bringing up to date U.S. strategic plans for deterring nuclear...
Armchair admirals in Newport attributed the terrible trials of Terrible Ted to outside distractions (his new Cable News Network and the Atlanta Braves) and to lack of motivation. "Aw, that's a bunch of bull," Turner says. "I've got too much responsibility to spend all my time screwing around in sailboats, but it doesn't affect me on the race course...