Word: arawak
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Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
...spate of new Caribbean hotels. On Feb. 24 the $22 million, 630-room Havana Hilton will open, with a casino. Already running in Havana is the $6,000,000. 252-room Capri. Puerto Rico will soon inaugurate the 359-room, ocean-front San Juan Intercontinental. In Jamaica the Arawak's record for size will stand only until next year, when the 200-room Marrakech will open on the north shore. Chief Minister Norman Manley foresees that tourism, now earning Jamaica around $25 million a year, will jump to 500,000 visitors and $100 million in revenue...
...nation picked the Arawak word Haiti (meaning Mountainous Land) for a name, then proceeded to split itself in two. In the north, the fabulous Henri Christophe made himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...