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Prototype of the co-ops is the Mill Reef Club on isolated Antigua in the Leeward Islands. Opened in 1948 by U.S. Millionaire Robertson Ward, the club sprawls over 1.300 landscaped acres, has twelve sandy beaches, an 18-hole golf course. Membership (now closed) is rigidly screened to guarantee that openings do not go to just any old millionaire. Sixty-six members (among them: Francis du Pont) own winter homes on club property. With annual expenditures of $500,000. the club is impoverished Antigua's biggest single source of income...
...youngsters barely made it to Cambridge. Children of a prosperous businessman in Antigua in The West Indies, they expected a British education. "All my ambition was to go to England," Gregson admits. It took persuasion by an uncle who had gone to Harvard to convince Gregson's father that Harvard was every bit as good as Oxford, and to get Gregson to apply for a scholarship. Cecile wanted to go to Jamaica's University College of The West Indies, but agreed to go to the first school that offered her a scholarship. Impressed by an essay...
Forty miles north of Antigua, it was 3:50 a.m.. May 28, 1959. From the bridge and foredeck of the stubby U.S. Navy fleet tug Kiowa, about 25 officers and crewmen gazed at the tropical sky in awe and anxiety. What they saw was a momentous event in the history of man's determination to conquer space...
Puerto Rico-once a U.S. poorhouse in the Caribbean and lately a busy island workshop-is turning into a chic winter resort. Next week. 20 miles from downtown San Juan, Laurance Rockefeller's $9,000,000 Dorado Beach will open its doors, outclassing the smartest resorts of Jamaica. Antigua and Barbados...
...early 1800s; his paternal grandfather was a Connecticut Yankee who arrived in 1885. When John David was born in the family mansion, the Merwins owned one-sixth of St. Croix's 52,000 acres. Merwin had a cosmopolitan upbringing: grammar schooling in the British colony of Antigua; international law, briefly, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico; a degree in economics at Yale ('43); and, after World War II service as an artillery captain (Bronze Star, Croix de guerre with silver star), another degree, in law, at George Washington University...