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...Harvard students will help sail Endeavour I, a famous British racing schooner, from England to the United States next June. The vessel will be the first ship in the marine museum to be established at Newport...
...foot Endeavour "probably came closer to winning the America Cup than any other British boat," according to John Millar '64. Millar originated the idea for the Newport Museum and has been active in preparing for the schooner's transatlantic voyage. This summer he traveled to England to inspect Endeavour...
...Spokes. He has master-planned Irvine in three tiers. One, along the Pacific Coast, covering some 40,000 acres, will absorb the first wave of urbanization. Here will be a city, 31 miles south of overcrowded Newport Beach, and the beginning of a coastline dotted with beach clubs and marinas, ocean-centered communities and resort hotels. At the center will be the branch of the University of California on a 1,000-acre campus acting as a gigantic hub with spokes extruding into the surrounding residential area. Vast green stretches and extensive recreation areas, with industries scattered among them...
...over Irvine's residential region, bulldozers and graders, carpenters and builders were busy this week. At Dover Shores, a development on upper Newport Bay, 70 houses of the planned 311 have already been completed (60% of the homesites in this development were sold in two months, for houses costing from $46,000 to $190,000). And earthmovers were digging away at a 160-ft.-high dam that will hold a billion gallons of water to be used by the University of California and the residents of Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach...
...airport, the planes were buzzing in again, bringing guests for that night's Auchincloss party and taking guests from the night before off to Manhattan for a quick comb-out before hurrying back to Newport. The hairdressers imported for the weekend were downright frantic: Hugh Harrison from Claude's was kept busy all day at the Bogerts, and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel III (who gave a tea dance at their house that afternoon) supplied a man from Kenneth...