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...North American tourists are discovering Jamaica and echoing Columbus. The lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...
Ships & Sweat. Davis launches new businesses as easily as turning out an aluminum pan. Once he bought a 1,000-ton war-surplus Canadian minesweeper for a yacht, then decided to turn it into a banana boat. Result: Davis' Three Bay Lines now has seven ships transporting 1,000,000 tons of produce monthly between Caribbean ports. Everywhere around Miami, Davis draglines, Davis bulldozers, Davis dredges are filling in swampy land, cutting yacht canals to prepare the way for $35,000 to $100,000 homes...
Plants were uprooted from flowerbeds and flung at France's Premier. Oranges, banana peels, tomatoes, even the droppings from the uniformed Spahis' rearing horses showered about him. Pale but resolute, Mollet went up the steps through the barrage to the war memorial, and laid there a wreath honoring Algiers' war veterans. Even as the Spahis cleared a path for him back to his car, the demonstrators swarmed upon the monument, tore his wreath to shreds...
...goes to Hawaii. When Sheree refuses to let him live on the air base as "a sort of male camp follower," he decides to aloha the boom. One day she finds him sprawled, like a particularly depraved passage out of Somerset Maugham, in a little grass shack in the banana slums, with not much more than a pith helmet between him and the kind of girl a man likes to have under the palms. She's the cook, he explains. Next day the Mrs. moves the Mr. into Air Force quarters...
...idea continues to fascinate me that some anonymous wag designated it "Operation Banana" because it brought together the whole bunch...