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...corporate tax forgiveness and other come-ons that have blown up a storm of protest. Many islanders objected when Paiewonsky agreed to pay $3,000,000 to Harvey Aluminum for dredging a ship channel near a $25 million alumina plant that it is building on the island of St. Croix. To critics Paiewonsky snaps: "We don't want suitcase industry that comes in and takes tax concessions for ten years and then runs out. Heavy industry is what we need...
...with a metal message tube to be taken 25 miles to U.S. General John Pershing's headquarters. "Ride like hell," said the officer. "This is one you must get through." Roth got through despite a severe head wound from sniper fire, for his courageous journey received the French Croix de Guerre and U.S. Distinguished Service Cross...
...dailies that have succeeded in bucking the general decline offer lessons that the rest of Paris' papers are studying with interest. La Croix, a Catholic paper with 117,000 circulation, jumped sharply because of its coverage of the Ecumenical Council. While third-ranked Le Figaro held its own at 409,000 with its sober, comprehensive reporting, fourth-ranked L'Aurore trained its sights on a specific audience-the returnees from Algeria-and managed to boost circulation to 390,110. At Le Monde (193,017), austere Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery, 61, immerses his readers in a sea of small...
Biggest U.S. Virgin is St. Croix, where the fishing is good and the living is easy. The living is even easier at St. John, where Laurance Rockefeller bought 9,500 acres and turned it over to the U.S. Government as a national park. Nerve center of St. John is Rockefeller's famed resort named Cancel Bay Plantation, and its more recent sister developments at Turtle Bay and Trunk Bay. Here dignified fugitives from the executive suites in New York and Chicago enjoy quiet vacations with their wives in well-appointed rooms ($40 to $60). There is no golf course...
...swimming pool, once F.D.R.'s pride and joy. It used to have one wall with windows. But no longer. The windows have been filled in and in their place, as a gift from the President's father, is a mural depicting a glorious sunset scene of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. To keep dampness from peeling the sunset off the wall, Joe Kennedy had a special exhaust fan system installed...