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...American Airlines 727 that lands each morning at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados carries not only vacationers but also an impressive load of paperwork. In order to cut costs on the processing of passenger ticket-coupons collected at its boarding gates, American flies daily an average of 1,100 lbs. of documents to the balmy island. In Barbados, some 500 computer keypunch operators employed by Caribbean Data Services, a subsidiary of the airline, transfer the ticket information to magnetic tape. The electronic data are then beamed by satellite to American's central computer in Tulsa. Despite extra expenses like...
...sake of improvement, inconveniences are worth it," said Grantley H. Lowe, who uses one of the post office boxes...
...million colored citizens. The measure, which stipulates that Commonwealth citizens may in the future enter the mother country only if they can prove that they have jobs to go to, has stirred deep resentment from Ireland to India, where it is being called "British apartheid." Sir Grantley Adams, federal prime minister of the British West Indies, said bitterly last week: "I was consulted about as much as a father consults his son whether he should be flogged...
Jamaica is ready and willing to grant the concession, but Federal Prime Minister Sir Grantley Adams loudly objects. Under the constitution, Adams must run the federation on an income of $5,000,000, chipped in by the island members. When the federation is five years old, he will be able to pass income-tax laws that will give the federal government more means and more power. In the meantime, he looks with suspicion on any possible crippling tax concessions granted by the individual territories. Before leaving last month for Canada, he issued a warning. "If island after island," he said...
...black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated, and the new nation, joining ten island governments, was in business...