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...empowered their secretaries to promise $5 million or $10 million as part of any billion-dollar loan package for Brazil or Mexico. To seal and celebrate big deals, bankers staged signing ceremonies, complete with champagne and caviar, in opulent settings, some times a British castle or a mansion in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumbo Loans, Jumbo Risks | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Only four years ago Weld crossed the Atlantic alone in only 18 days, breaking the record for the 3000-mile. Plymouth, England-to-Newport, Rl race by more than two days...

Author: By Nicholas P. Caros, | Title: Famed Sailor Philip S. Weld Dies at 69 | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...expensive and useless weapon. The study was released by Oregon's Republican Congressman Denny Smith, a fierce opponent of DIVAD. According to the report, the Pentagon was too concerned with producing the weapon swiftly to bargain carefully with the manufacturer, the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. of Newport Beach, Calif., a division of Ford Motor Co. Said Smith: "Not only are we buying a DIVAD that doesn't work; the taxpayers are being ripped off by excessive charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faulty Hardware | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...break came when Kenneth Senger, the state epidemiologist in South Dakota, reported that there had been four cases of infection with antibiotic-resistant S. newport in the state in three months. Interviews established that the victims lived on farms six miles apart and that they got their beef from the same nearby feed lot, which routinely added chlortetracycline to the animals' feed. The CDC traced the path of the meat shipments from the feed lot to eight supermarkets patronized by the ten Minnesota victims. All had reported eating hamburgers within a week of the time they became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Linking Drugs to the Dinner Table | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...moved frequently as Henry James St. sought intellectual stimulation for himself and the best possible education for Alice's four older brothers. As each of the schools the boys attended failed to live up to their father's demanding expectations, the family traveled through Europe and lived briefly in Newport Finally, when Alice was 16, they settled at 20 Quincy St. in Cambridge now site of Harvard's Faculty Club...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: Poor Alice | 7/13/1984 | See Source »

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