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TANKER CUTBACKS are hitting U.S. shipyards because oil-import curbs have slashed ship charter prices. At Newport News, Bethlehem and Sun yards, $130 million in ships ordered by independent Greek contractors (Onassis, Livanos, Goulandris) has been canceled...
...York Central, the nation's second biggest railroad, and an important voice in several other roads, Bob Young had collected all the prizes of a champion battler: wealth, power, glittering friends (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor et al.), palatial homes in Palm Beach and Newport...
William L. Dowling, Jr. '59 of Roxbury and Dunster was elected president of the Harvard Catholic Club. In the elections, held Jan. 8, Upton B. Brady '59 of Newport, R.I., and Adams became vice-president. The Harvard Catholics also elected Conal E. Murray '59 of New York and Kirkland as secretary...
Died. Vice Admiral Herbert Fairfax Leary, 72, commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Southwest Pacific (1942), of a heart attack; in Newport...
...Long Beach waterfront, the Los Angeles Examiner's hardboiled, cigar-chomping Ben Reddick hoisted his last drink at Shanghai Red's and moved to a more elegant section of the coastline. For $8,400, Photographer-Reporter Reddick had become owner, publisher and editor of the weekly Newport Harbor News Press. Far from succumbing to the easygoing ways of Newport's cruise-and-booze set, Newsman Reddick covered the town as if it were just another waterfront, turned his paper into an aggressive, news-packed triweekly (circ. 4,445) that not infrequently pinned back the Examiner...