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Most of the Bahaman people are so friendly that you will become incredibly paranoid for the first few hours you are there. "No one is this nice to strangers," you'll think. "They must want something from...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Imagine the Perfect Getaway Place | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

Another simple task is deciding where to eat. Conch is the Bahaman specialty dish, and you can have it prepared every way imaginable. It's tasty the first dozen-or-so times you try it, but it gets kind of gross after that. All of the restaurants in the Bahamas are lousy, so you'll probably wind up eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken all the time. If you do, remember that "breast" means "scrappy piece of cartilage and bone" in the Bahamas. Try the word "kiel" instead...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Imagine the Perfect Getaway Place | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...points. ICCA and all Ivy selections Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree will be up to their old jumping tricks, taking the Ivies by storm. Opposing coaches will have their hands filled trying to figure out where Vanderpool-Wallace will strike next this spring. Stowell expects the durable Bahaman to fill in at long jump triple jump, and sprint medley, with an occasional high jump stint thrown...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Track: Trying for Another GBC Title | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

Last week Clint Murchison Jr. holed up on the brothers' private Bahaman island and took the radiophone off the hook; John flew off to Paris. Other Texas financiers, who had stomped their boots in joy when the brothers toppled an Eastern millionaire, were downhearted. More than glory had disappeared with the Murchisons' defeat. A decline in the price of Alleghany from a 1961 high of $15.50 per share to $10.63 at present, and their guarantees to make up any losses suffered by big proxy allies, had cost the Murchisons an estimated $18 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: Winner by a Knockout | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Often, said O'Day, the first ten boats would round a given mark within ten seconds of each other. He remarked that a Bahaman had told him it "was the first place he had ever been where you had to be an expert to lose." It was, he said, a cutthroat competition...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

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