Word: caribs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRAILER FERRY service to Europe is starting with shipment of 97 loaded truck-trailers from Brooklyn to France. TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. is chartering 475-ft. transatlantic ferry Carib Queen to Army, expects to begin commercial trips by March. Company figures roll-on, roll-off shipments will cut shipping time by two-thirds, trim packaging and handling costs...
...roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else, he began to do the jump-up. "Trinidad's music," he says, "is extraverted stuff that knocks you off your pins. It makes you jump up; mine-well, you just sit down...
...Finally I joined the Katherine Dunham regular company and we went on tour. There was Carib Song, which took place in Haiti or someplace like that, and other shows, and we toured all of Mexico, too. Then we went to Hollywood where I had a little bit of a part in Casbah, that awful thing with Tony Martin. I was the dancer who said, "Come on, Pepe," She snapped her fingers and wiggled in her chair...