Word: newports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Naval War College in Newport, R.I., this week, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown is to unveil officially the nuclear age's ultimate contingency plan. To some critics, it is a doomsday scenario, an outline for atomic war that could lead to the destruction of the human race. But to U.S. defense policymakers, Brown's speech represents an unavoidable rethinking of the unthinkable: bringing up to date U.S. strategic plans for deterring nuclear...
...Newport, some terrible trials for Terrible...
...trials. Ted Turner has cause to be subdued. With the third and final round of the trials set to begin next week, Courageous has won only six races and lost 19, leaving her a distant second to Freedom (31-2) and only marginally better than Clipper (7-24). In Newport, R.I., site of the 129-year-old competition, a cruel whisper is making the rounds: "Ted is dead...
...arrived with a slightly modified hull (later changed even further) and the same crew that captured sailing's most coveted prize in 1977. He was the early favorite to defend the Cup in September against either Britain, France, Sweden or Australia; the foreign trials began last week off Newport. But from the outset Courageous has been buffeted by ill winds. In one race, the hydraulic device that controls the boom failed. Then the boom itself cracked, and a day later the yacht lost her mast when an inexpensive piece of equipment let go high in the rigging. To make...
Armchair admirals in Newport attributed the terrible trials of Terrible Ted to outside distractions (his new Cable News Network and the Atlanta Braves) and to lack of motivation. "Aw, that's a bunch of bull," Turner says. "I've got too much responsibility to spend all my time screwing around in sailboats, but it doesn't affect me on the race course...