Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needs it, he has a streak of stern resolution beneath the gentle surface. In politics he was, a Massachusetts Democratic politico admiringly recalls, "a real Yankee trader who'd give you an apple for an orchard and make you think you got a good deal." Adds another Bay Streeter, who has known Herter for decades: "There are some people who would say he's too nice a guy for the job. It's not true. Believe me, he can be tough and hard when he needs...
...maximum-security "screen" will surround Cuban Premier Fidel Castro this afternoon as soon as his train pulls into Back Bay Station, and an estimated 300 to 500 policemen will guard him during his speech tonight at Dillon Field House. Police reports indicate that the crowd may reach...
...Premier will arrive at Back Bay Station at 3:30 this afternoon with his party of 71, and will be met by J. Hampden Robb '21, University Marshal, Edward Petullo, assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Law Forum officers, and local Cubans...
...with fee). Standard Oil Heiress Marion Carstairs and her half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed $600,000 golf course, and bought 25,000 acres of pink-beached paradise. Last week he was closing a deal to sell a sizable chunk of his acreage to a combine headed...
...Votes Apiece. The Bay Street boys run the politics as well as the boom. But even in the sparsely populated (116,530) Bahamas, the dreams that drove colonials to greater measures of self-government elsewhere in the old British Empire are stirring. Last year, at the beginning of the winter season, Nassau's taxi drivers, bus boys, power-plant workers and construction workers walked out on strike (TIME, Jan. 27, 1958). Members of the Progressive Liberal Party, they struck mostly for fairer polling laws, and they won a few concessions; e.g., men of property, who formerly could vote...