Word: eleuthera
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...Their common link, besides furtive lust, is Christopher Columbus. She has been asked for an article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site of a golden crown that Queen Isabella gave Columbus. But what if it was a crown of a different kind...
...Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, the King and Queen of Sweden, the Duke and Duchess of Liechtenstein); social (Sabrina Guinness, Sir Hugh Casson); and sentimental (Flo Moore, who kept Charles' Cambridge rooms in order; Henry and Cora Sands, who provided Charles with some homemade bread during holidays in Eleuthera; Patrick and Nancy Robertson, an American couple whose son Lady Diana played nanny to in 1979 and 1980). Inevitably there are also a few conspicuous by their absence, like King Juan Carlos of Spain, who was miffed that the Prince and Princess of Wales chose to embark on their honeymoon...
...industrial complex of 800 licensed businesses. Aluminum Executive J. Louis Reynolds is converting 13,000 acres on Andros Island into a housing, resort and commercial development that will include a U.S.-British navy undersea research and training center. Pan American's Juan Trippe is developing a section of Eleuthera, has thus far built a private golf course, a 100-room hotel and a nightclub, and has even added a jet strip and two flights a day out of Nassau. Other developments are being pushed on Abaco, Great Exuma, Cat Island and Paradise Island...
...large that the lifeguards use a rowboat. Farther south, the so-called Out Islands are becoming more popular with the kind of people for whom Nassau is beginning to seem far too much like a honky-tonk meld of El Morocco, Smalls' Paradise and Fort Lauderdale. Eleuthera has acquired four new hotels, and Harbour Island, a tiny island off Eleuthera's northern tip, has for years attracted socialites from the U.S. as a place for a quiet vacation in the well-managed cluster of cottages called Pink Sands Lodge...
...Bahamas (no personal property tax; no real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent...