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Winters on the U.S. East Coast are ordinarily moderated by the Bermuda high, a swirling mass of moist tropical air off the Atlantic Coast that acts as a protective buffer to icy arctic blasts. This winter, because of abnormal patterns in the high altitude winds (TIME, Jan. 20), the Bermuda high has been flubbing its job. Result: successive masses of polar air have flowed down the Mississippi Valley and eastward, spreading out to reach deep into Florida, to bring abnormal cold and, in the clash with tropical air masses, heavy rains and snows...
...colony's 16 major hotels were closed and empty. In a matter of days all but 24 of some 3,500 tourists fled home by cruise ship and plane. As they cleared out, a company of British troops flew in from Jamaica and a frigate steamed in from Bermuda to stand guard with local police. A militant Negro labor union had frozen sunny Nassau with a general strike, aimed at breaking the white minority's grip on political power...
...gradually getting more freedom from Britain in local affairs. This week a big helping of self-government goes to Barbados, sugargrowing "little England" of the West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...
...Bermuda shorts and H.A.A. sweat-shirts have become the order of the day as the House winter athletic teams began their first practice session at the I.A.B. and Watson Rink this week...
Norstad's proposal was an outgrowth of the U.S.-United Kingdom agreement at Bermuda last March, in which the U.S. promised to provide Britain with IRBMs (but without nuclear warheads*), to replace the firepower of its dwindling military manpower. It will be placed before the December meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Paris...