Word: newports
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...DIED. BILL MAULDIN, 81, American army sergeant turned Pulitzer prizewinning cartoonist; in Newport Beach, California. Mauldin's unconquerable GIs Willie and Joe inspired and immortalized the courage of American soldiers in World War II. After the war, Mauldin became a syndicated cartoonist and won his second Pulitzer for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another prisoner: "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime...
...three students who died at the scene of the accident were sophomore Kyle M. Burnat, 19, of College Park, Ga., sophomore Andrew K. Dwyer, 20, of Hobe Sound, Fla. and the driver of the vehicle, junior Sean R. Fenton, 20, of Newport Beach, Calif...
Raised in Newport Beach, Calif., Scelsa and Millang met in high school, where they jammed in rival bands. Years later, while working after college as teaching assistants for special-ed classes, they recorded a collection of songs for children and hand-carried the albums to a teachers' convention in Texas. In just two days they sold nearly 500 copies...
...turret will be on display in a giant tank at the Mariners'Museum in Newport News, Va., for at least the next decade. That's how long it will take to slowly remove rust and organic matter encrusting the turret and restore the parts...
Sources: The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va.; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; U.S. Navy, Naval Historical Center; U.S.S. Monitor: The Ship that Launched a Modern Navy, by Lieut. Edward M. Miller, USN; Navalships Information Group; The Cambrian Foundation