Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first two races-the fastest-racing yacht on the high seas. Last February, in her competitive debut, Ondine clipped two hours off the course record for the Buenos Aires-Rio run, covering 1,200 miles in less than 190 hours. Two weeks ago, in the 635-mile Newport-Bermuda race, Ondine was becalmed for twelve hours, but still led the 151-boat fleet across the finish. Her time-83 hrs. 12 min.-was a full hour faster than the second boat. Strictly for Power. Unlike most ocean-racing yachts, which are designed to compete on corrected rather than actual time...
...first glance, Bermuda and the Bahamas might seem picture-postcard duplicates. Both Caribbean resort islands have a heavy Negro majority and a predominantly Negro party with the same initials (P.L.P.). Each also has a largely white-and business-dominated party with the same initials (U.B.P.). But there, all coincidence ends. In the Bahamas, the predominantly white United Bahamian Party was decisively voted from power in elections held last year. In Bermuda, voters went to the polls last week and just as decisively re-elected their predominantly white United Bermuda Party, giving it a commanding majority of 30 seats...
...casual tourist on an afternoon outing, Bermuda seemed the same old happy, fun place. Old folks milled through the gleaming pastel shops on Hamilton's Front Street; honeymooners buzzed about the island on rented motorbikes and lounged on beaches or around hotel pools. But after dark, Bermuda took on a new atmosphere. Everyone was ordered off the streets, and soldiers threw up barbed-wire barricades. Extra police patrolled the downtown area. Lights blinked late on the newly arrived British troop frigate, H.M.S. Leopard, which bobbed at anchor in a Front Street berth normally reserved for cruise ships. Thus last...
Notable Strides. The reason for the tension was an attempt by the island's six-year-old, predominantly Negro Progressive Labor Party to turn the elections into a bitter racial contest with the ruling United Bermuda Party. The United Bermuda, though biracial, is controlled by the island's businessmen and white Establishment. Like their distant neighbors in the Bahamas, Bermuda's Negroes constitute a majority (63%) of the island's 50,000 people; yet, unlike the Bahamas, Bermuda under the United Bermudians has made notable strides in integrating the island's life...
Over the next two days, rioting and looting spread over a ten-block area of Hamilton, causing $1,000,000 in damage and leaving seventeen persons injured. Bermuda's British Governor, Lord Martonmere, declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and asked for-and received-365 additional troops from Britain. All seemed quiet again by last week, but, like the scent of hibiscus, tension hung heavy in Bermuda's balmy...