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...game ended on a frustrating note for Thomas. With seconds remaining, halfack Bob Woods fed Thomas on the right wing. The junior from Gambia missed the goal post by inches as the gun sounded...
...academy, Thomas helped the soccer team compile an 11-1 record, winning the league title in the process. Thomas scored 26 goals that season. He arrived at Harvard the following year, and continued to score. About 22 times. As a sophomore last year. Thomas and Solomon Gomez, also from Gambia, tied as the Crimson scoring leaders...
Nudism may have its perils, but it has proved a gold mine for Swedish tour operators and for Gambia too. Every two weeks, from November through April, a chartered 707 swoops into Yundum International Airport, disgorges 150 pink newcomers, and then hauls 150 bronzed Scandinavians back to icy Stockholm. At Yundum's terminal, things get hectic, for the building is only 40 feet by 20 feet. Still, officials of Gambia Airways (which has clerks and baggage handlers but flies no aircraft) cope magnificently. Once tucked into one of Gambia's three hotels, the tourists head for the beaches...
...Gambia-a minuscule former British colony with 316,022 people and 340,000 head of cattle-the tourist business represents what may be the country's only chance to diversify its peanut-based, peanut-size economy. The locals catch on fast. As soon as the tourists arrive, bar, food and taxi prices zoom. The Atlantic Hotel charges an extra $1.50 a day to turn on one's room air conditioner and 50? for a daily shot of mosquito spray. Toast for breakfast? One must make a personal request to the manager...
Beyond the beaches and hotels, Gambia offers little in the way of action. Bathurst, the capital, has a scattering of rickety bars, and there is a discothéque, located on a rusty hulk moored to Bathurst pier. The bars draw a splendid selection of the local layabouts, who cadge drinks off the Swedes, and there is hot competition these days for a waiter's job at one of the hotels. Only last year, it seems, a strapping Swedish gym mistress selected one of the Atlantic's diminutive waiters as a husband...