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...Newport Jazz Festival is an event of which the citizens of Rhode Island are proud, so it's only natural that on Thursday night the Festival was opened by a public official. In his remarks, Sen. Claiborne Pell tipped his hat to the Festival ("it has become a custom, a delightful institution"), dragged in the Russians (jazz "has penetrated the Iron Curtain and permeated the world better and more effectively than most of our voices have in Washington"), and called his colleague, Sen. Green, "the grandfather of jazz," whatever that means. Then Pell stepped down, and the music began...
...noncom in the Marine Corps, Beckwith was a machine gunner in the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Wounded in the chest before reaching the beach at Tarawa, he saved himself by swimming half a mile to a reef. He married a Navy WAVE, Mary Louise Williams, a descendant of Rhode Island's Founding Father Roger Williams...
...Hampshire, whose early-bird March primary makes it one of the most politically significant of the New England states, now appears to favor Goldwater. Similarly, Rhode Island, once a strong Rocky state, has softened...
This is Abrams' second year on the varsity, and he also played on the freshman squad. A Providence Journal "Honor Roll Boy" and a member of the Rhode Island all-state football team, he has played freshman and JV football...
...Rhode Island...