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...these stories are reported in BUSINESS, and for what specifically aggravated the banker, see Wanted: Price Cuts. GEORGE WASHINGTON once slept in Barbados, and Captain Bligh sailed to St. Vincent. Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis, and the pirate Morgan was lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Lord Nelson served at Antigua. Now, shaking off the fascinations of the past, the scenic British islands are banding together in a federation, the newest nation-neighbor of the U.S. For the story and color photographs, see HEMISPHERE, First Election...
...Leeward Islands (pop. 131,600) grow sugar and sea-island cotton, are dominated by Antigua (pronounced An-tee-ga), tourist capital of the smaller islands...
First, it must enact a customs union of the islands. Tariffs are now a jumble. Antigua collects duties on goods in transshipment to St. Kitts. which in turn collects another duty upon arrival (smuggling is commonplace). Jamaica's industries are protectively walled off. will presumably suffer from competition from other islands. The new law will have to eliminate these barriers, create a common market, set common tariffs, provide for negotiating commercial treaties with other nations...
Even while on its Florida launching pad, the Army's satellite Explorer (official scientific name: 1958 Alpha) insistently broadcast its hoarse radio cry. Ten minutes after takeoff, Antigua in the British West Indies heard it soar triumphantly overhead. Fifteen minutes later it was radio-tracked over Ghana on the west coast of Africa. Around the earth it swept, but not until it passed homebound over California-nearly two hours after it left the ground-were the scientists sure that their bird was in a stable orbit...
Watson said yesterday that he expected the Masters to meet again as soon as Dean Bundy comes back to the University. Bundy is currently vacationing in Antigua, B.W.I. After a brief return to Cambridge next week, he will be in California on business until...