Word: cay
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Slob, Humbug & Jealousy. Volcanic in origin, the islands are a myriad of forms and sizes ranging from a barren cay to agricultural St. Croix, which is 26 miles long and up to six miles wide. St. Thomas offers the bustle of Charlotte Amalie, the islands' capital city, as well as ancient forts and quaint Danish architecture. St. Croix, quieter and less populated, boasts a rain forest and an arid, cactus-studded bluff, wildlife (deer, quail), a profusion of tropical fruit from papaya to pineapples, a golf course, and old plantations with such calypso names as "Slob," "Humbug" and "Jealousy...
...lights and the pagan rites of spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head for the stars to report to the Emperor of Jade, thus leaving the world to the evil offices of fork...
...million annual income. Last year, a record 800,000 vacationers poured into the Bahamas, and by 1968 the total should reach more than 1,000,000 a year, which would leave the islands second only to Puerto Rico in Caribbean tourist traffic. Whether they stay at Lyford Cay, Canadian Millionaire E. P. Taylor's resort on New Providence Island, or at any of the more modest hotels that are budding just about everywhere, the tourists leave a bundle of foreign exchange behind. Last year, for the convenience of its predominantly American visitors, the Bahamas even switched the official currency...
...last night doing the town till the wee hours, winding up at a place called Chez Vito, where Georgie, accompanied by five violinists, sang Language of Love in her ear. Meanwhile, down in Nassau the language was "Do Not Disturb" as Luci and Pat hid out in a Lyford Cay villa for four days before emerging for tea with the Governor of the Bahamas...
...time the leaders reached Cat Cay, just 44½ miles from Miami, it was a two-boat race. Don Aronow, whose boatyard had already turned out the successful Formula racers, had come up with a new boat: Donzi 007, a fiberglass 28-footer, with a deep-V hull like the Bertram and powered by two 450-h.p. Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots...