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...West Indians maintain that black power against black governments makes little sense. But militants dismiss their present leaders as "Afro-Saxons" and press for revolutionary change. In response, West Indian governments have resorted to a wide range of precautionary measures. The Jamaican government banned the works of Malcolm X. Bermuda canceled a schoolboy sports meet to avoid the danger of a racial incident, and Trinidad reportedly refused stopover privileges to one of her most illustrious native sons, Stokely Carmichael. This, as Carmichael modestly sees it, was the real reason for the uprising in Trinidad last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trinidad And Tobago: Caribbean Mutiny | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...Flat Blade, he is perhaps the best putter among all the great players in the game today. Though he likes to say that he attaches more importance to his driving, he will lecture for hours on the virtues of the "reverse overlap" putting grip, or the different consistencies of Bermuda and bent-grass greens. "If you don't putt well, it affects your whole game. It is the most delicate and precise thing you do," he says. "It takes more touch, more feel. You have to be mentally refreshed to do it well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Flat Blade | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...sales of the area's only existing McDonald's stand by 90%. The owner agreed to sell for about $200,000, and Johnson got his SBA loan, on terms he sardonically summarizes: "Thou shall not buy a Cadillac. Thou shalt not take a trip to Bermuda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Beginnings of Black Capitalism | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

Brooks, who coached the Bermuda team at three Olympic Games, spent his first collegiate coaching years at Rider College and the University of Detroit. He came to Harvard in 1946 and became head coach after the 1959 season. Brooks was a swimmer and diver before he began coaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks Receives Coaching Award | 3/27/1970 | See Source »

...sculptures, a visitor is likely to feel he has met them all some place before. And he probably has. Here is a Madison Avenue type in J. Press suit, there a teen-ager in toreadors, over there a gangly businessman on holiday, all legs and knobby knees in Bermuda shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Telltale Gesture | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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