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...liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route to a post in Virginia, he was so naive about what it could mean to be black in America that when a waitress at a segregated Newport News, Virginia, drive-in refused to serve him and his wife, he recalled later, "I thought maybe there was something wrong with the car door." When it dawned on him that he had been rejected because of his race, Brown drove off, apparently without making a protest...
...THEIR STYLE THAT TODAY'S millionaires differ most strikingly from the new rich of the past. Rather than build huge houses of questionable taste in Newport or Palm Beach or Aspen, the brand-new millionaires may live in two-bedroom apartments and wear T shirts and jeans. Rather than jet to Tahoe for the weekend in their Gulfstream, they are liable to be with the kids at the neighborhood soccer league. Running-shoe chic is often a pose in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but this modesty appears genuine. Today's newly superrich are models of free enterprise, except...
Grammarossa also points out that the three most advertised brands--Camel, Marlboro and Newport--are also the three most popular brands among teenage smokers...
...showdown came on the evening of Sept. 7 at the Newport Beach mansion of billionaire Donald Bren, the Irvine Co. developer and a longtime Wilson backer. In a tense session with Wilson, Bren and Fuller, Gorton recommended bugging out of Iowa for lack of organization, manpower and money. Instead the campaign should concentrate on New York, he said, where TV ads can achieve far more bang for the buck. Fuller argued vehemently against the idea, but Wilson backed Gorton. Fuller then sidelined himself to Washington as fund-raising supervisor and surrogate public campaigner, leaving Gorton supreme in Sacramento--for about...
...Army, Navy and Air Force. In June the National Defense University in Washington quietly graduated its first class of 16 infowar officers, specially trained in everything from defending against computer attacks to using virtual reality in planning battle maneuvers. Last month the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, finished a global war game that had information-warfare specialists plotting ways to cripple enemy computers. Later this summer senior Pentagon officials will analyze the results of more than a dozen secret infowar games conducted during the past two years to determine how future military tactics should be changed...