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...super thermos bottles" for the mountains of insulation encircling their holds to keep the gas at -259° F., its liquefying point. Tenneco stands to be cut in as contractor for at least several of those vessels: it happens to own the nation's largest shipbuilding operation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock...
...event was called the Newport Jazz Festival New York. It was a massive transplant of the same Newport Festival that rotund former Jazz Pianist George Wein, 46, had run for 18 years in a large field hard by Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In recent years, with rock festivals failing on all sides, Newport had become a new chosen land of the Huns of Aquarius. Last year, when a noisy and violent horde broke through a chain-link fence and overran the paying customers while Dionne Warwicke was singing, Wein had enough; he canceled the show. A few days...
Died. Raymond P. Holden, 78, poet, novelist and editor; of leukemia; in North Newport, N.H. Holden's first love and special talent was verse, and he published several collections of sensitive, tightly constructed poems (Granite and Alabaster, 1922; Natural History, 1938; The Reminding Salt, 1965). His varied career included three years as executive editor of The New Yorker (1929-32) and stints as a brokerage-firm research analyst and a financial editor. Under the pseudonym Richard Peckham, he also wrote mysteries...
With minimum fuss she quit her job as a psychologist, bought a sloop called Aziz and, last year, made the trip from Wales to Newport, R.I., in 45 days. She was only the third woman to try, the second to succeed...
...involvement whatever in this particular incident." Inevitably the FBI's investigation was being watched closely to make sure there was no White House effort to whitewash the case. The first suspicion arose when Mitchell and Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray were both at the Newporter Inn in California's Newport Beach the day after the arrests. But both denied seeing the other man there. "The hotel is a big place," says Gray. "I was in Room 331, the Mitchells were in a villa. One of my agents told me the Mitchells were there." The FBI checks telephone...