Word: newports
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...Newport, R.I., was founded by a group of religious refugees from Massachusetts led by William Coddington. The small village soon became one of the most flourishing seaports in colonial North America because of its excellent harbor. After the American Civil War, largely because of a temperate climate and scenic location, Newport developed as an opulent summer resort with palatial summer mansions...
...excommunicated Mormon accountant ("He broke too many rules--coffee, drinking, smoking," says the son, conscious of his father's death at 59) and grew up in the San Francisco suburb of Millbrae. In high school he swam competitively but didn't study. After graduating--barely--he moved down to Newport Beach to surf. But he had smarts. As a draft-eligible nonstudent, he says, he got the highest score of 35,000 recruits on a Navy intelligence test. Trained as a hospital corpsman, he saw North Vietnam's devastating Tet offensive in 1968. Says his wife Claire Fraser, a prominent...
Other activities over the summer include trips to Maine, Newport R.I., and Cape...
...golfer, you know someone like Newport, a civilian who hits it straight and long, scores in the mid-to-low 70s and, you sometimes think, could make it on the tour if only he got serious. That's sort of what Newport believed, and his chronicle of a year devoted to the task explains why the fine green line--the boundary between the worst of the touring pros and the best club champions--is as wide as the Pacific. Newport may be a very good golfer, but he's an even better writer. From a distressing little story about Michael...
...have also seen the feverish pace of seniors destined to "see it all" in Boston. They have spent four years far from home, not ever going beyond Newbury Street. The Freedom Trail, the Arnold Arboretum, mansions in Newport, R.I.; attractions near and far that they planned to visit evaporated under paper deadlines and piles of reading. These goals have had one desperate chance at fulfillment: senior spring. I hope the experience of watching all of these senior rituals makes me more prepared to face these rigors next year...