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...week's end, this all too real mystery story had no solution. Police appeared as baffled by the murder of Bermuda's Governor Sir Richard Sharples and Aide Hugh Sayers as they were by that of the island's police chief, George Duckett, exactly six months earlier. Were the killings connected? Were they politically motivated? Nobody knew for sure, but everybody had theories. From Bermuda, TIME Correspondent James Simon sent this report...
...conference was intended as a signal to foreign tourists (who annually spend about $100 million in Bermuda, three-quarters of the island's income) that all is well. The sun still shines more than 340 days a year, the hibiscus still bloom, and the Bermudian bobby still stands in his elevated bird cage directing the traffic on Hamilton's Front Street...
...drivers, bartenders and shopkeepers, is that it was an "outside job." The leader of the minority Progressive Labor Party, Walter N.H. Robinson, a portly black lawyer of 55 who just before the murder demanded the removal of any Governor appointed by London, has closed ranks with the ruling United Bermuda Party in deploring the murders. He privately speculated that the crime stemmed from underworld efforts to bring in narcotics...
...Richard Sharples was a very different sort. After a successful military career, he entered the House of Commons in 1954 and rose through Conservative Party ranks to become a Minister of State for the Home Office, then got the assignment to Bermuda last October. "This man had just come here and hadn't done anything to anybody," said one fisherman in Hamilton. It is the view among Bermudians, both black and white, that Sir Richard was pleasant, outgoing and informal. "The shooting could not have been personal," said M.P. William M. Cox of the United Bermuda Party. "That chap...
...like that of Isaac Hayes, who breathes out his lyrics like Holy Writ, is clumsy and pretentious. Rufus Thomas is the only one who really makes things work. He performs Funky Chicken, strutting smartly about the stage splendidly attired in shocking-pink cape with matching shirt and Bermuda shorts and white vinyl boots as if he will never come home to roost. It is a performance of ebullient self-parody, one that the kids in the stadium seem to enjoy...