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...Greenstreet character who, they said, picked up $29,000 at the tables a few weeks ago. Former Light-Heavyweight Champ Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call it the Riviera of the Americas, vow that in time the bustling little town will become one of the Caribbean's biggest tourist and industrial centers...
...British Bahamian islands, the tiny rock looks big. For the tourist, there is an average temperature of 76°, fresh water aplenty (if that's what he wants), miles of beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...
Crown Concessions. Freeport is the stubborn dream of U.S. Financier and Developer Wallace Groves. In the late 1940s, Groves bought a small lumber company on Grand Bahama, then little more than a desert island. In 1955, in exchange for tax concessions and a 99-year lease on 50,000 acres of Crown land, he agreed to dredge a harbor, build a port city - Freeport - provide school, health and utility needs, and bring in industry. But industry was not interested. All Groves had forgotten, says an associate, was "to make the place livable." So he got 100,000 more Crown acres...
...Civil Rights Coordinating Committee yesterday elected Robert E. Wright '65, of Winthrop House and Bailey's Crossroads, Va., as its new chairman. Other officers elected were Noel W. Solomons '66, of Dudley House and Cambridge, vice chairman; Ann H. Popkin '67, of Moors Hall and Freeport, N.Y., secretary; Peter Orris '67, of Massachusetts Hall and New York city, treasurer; and Carl D. Pope '67, of Matthews Hall and Garrett Park, Md., education chairman...
...Freeport, Texas...