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...Wednesday I knew New Jersey's great airports pretty well. Don't pay a dollar to park in the Morristown lot; there are free spaces fifty yards further on. And try the grilled cheese and tomato in Manny's Cockpit Restaurant. Can't get anything like it on Antigua...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Thumbing the Friendly Skies | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Died. Morgan Beatty, 72, reporter and NBC radio broadcaster; in St. Johns, Antigua. As a military expert for the Associated Press during World War II, Beatty accurately predicted both Hitler's assault on Russia and the successful Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 21, 1975 | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

Cambridge Musica Antigua. Street songs of 1535; Arcadelt: Missa Noe-Noe. Free. Sunday, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

...Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy. The next day they flew to Barbados for an 18-day honeymoon cruise on the royal yacht Britannia through the Caribbean to the Galapagos Islands, to be followed by an official tour of Ecuador, Colombia, Jamaica and the islands of Montserrat and Antigua. Home, after that, will be an eleven-room house at Sandhurst Military Academy, where Mark will be an instructor. Anne has professed to be able to cook "a quick meal." Adds Mark: "I can recommend the scrambled eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Anne's Day: Simply Splendid | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Williams is one of the few Caribbean politicians of his generation who did not come to power via the unions. Political Scientist Uria Forbes of Antigua's University of the West Indies observes: "The boss-man of the union has emerged as the charismatic political leader of the laboring class, always the predominant group on the islands. He has replaced the old planter aristocrat as well as the old British governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Challenging the Boss-Men | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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