Word: antigua
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...strip is like putting down on an aircraft carrier-visitors to these islands can go by jet only as far as St. Maarten; from there they proceed either by boat or Windward Islands Airways International (Winair). For Montserrat and Barbuda, the traveler flies to Antigua and then takes LIAT, acronym for Leeward Island Air Transport. On to the islands...
Dominica is only the first of a series of independent ministates about to pop up in the Caribbean. Within the next twelve months or so it will be followed by St. Lucia (pop. 120,000), St. Vincent (pop. 100,000), Antigua (pop. 75,000) and St. Kitts-Nevis (pop. 50,000). All the islands have been British Associated States, and all are leaving London's paternal embrace hungry for aid. They share one other trait: a capacity to cause problems for the 26-member OAS, which they all plan to join. Each will receive a vote equal to that...
...British Empire in 1974. Literature, another Mellon love, gallops as Knight's Tale, Winter's Tale, Canterbury Tale and Love for Love; and geography, the places Mellon owns, shows up in horses like the famous Mill Reef, named for a landmark near the Mellon house on Antigua in the West Indies. There is even a touch of the Mellon humor and a possible title to this inadvertent autobiography in a stallion named Key to the Mint. Because if anybody has it−the key to the mint, that is−it is Paul Mellon...
...stocks, bonds and other measurable holdings−particularly in family-dominated companies such as Gulf Oil, Alcoa and Koppers−is probably well over $400 million. But there is no way of putting a figure on his other possessions: the 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, the retreats on Antigua and Cape Cod, the town houses in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., the stables of racing horses in the U.S. and Britain or the hundreds of English and French art masterpieces that he has yet to give away...
...winter he spends a short time in Antigua, and in the summer he takes a month or so on Cape Cod. The rest of the time is divided between his homes in Manhattan and Washington, where he works at being president of the National Gallery. He employs three pilots to fly his Gulfstream jet so that one will always be available. During the summer he will often swim at Cape Cod in the morning, fly to Saratoga to watch the races and have lunch, and be back on the Cape for another swim in the late afternoon. What nature...