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...every day that a call from Riyadh to Buenos Aires is misdirected to Statia, but a mention of the island evokes an identical response from almost everyone: St. What?. was not always so. In its 18th century heyday, 8-sq.-mi. St. Eustatius was the richest free port in the Americas, with a population of more than 8,000 (now 1,400), visited by 3,000 ships a year. During the American Revolutionary War, vessels from Statia (pronounced Stay-shuh) shuttled arms and supplies to the rebellious colonies. On Nov. 16, 1776, the armed North American brigantine Andrew Doria, flying...
...early and mid-'60s saw the society's heyday; Life,, in its "Washington Report," said the society was engaged in "a massive shift from a semi-clandestine political guerilla force to a quasi-respectable pressure group," devoted mostly to withdrawal from the U.N., exposure of the civil rights "fraud," and the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 placed the group "in the area of being humorous." But Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), in a comment that would haunt him in his presidential bid, said, "I am impressed by the people...
Over the years Beaton was lucky enough-or adroit enough-to find himself in most of the right places at most of the right times. He was in Hollywood during its heyday in the '30s, and in the '40s he covered all the war fronts for the British propaganda office. In the '50s he astonished the fashion world with his magnificent costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi, and by the '60s he had fully established himself as a waspish, infallible arbiter elegantiae, the Petronius of Britain's comfortably padded decline...
...dancing, like jazz, is part of deep-rooted black culture. Slaves hoofed on bare dirt to silent rhythms; eventually stuck metal plates to the toe and heel of flat shoes. Tap's heyday came during the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s and 30s. Later, popularity spread when tap giants John Bubbles and Bill Robinson starred in Hollywood movies...
With impenitent nostalgia for their heyday, the prisoners still address one another by their former titles, such as "President" and "Minister." Their cells are equipped with air conditioners, refrigerators and TV sets. Among their favorite forms of exercise: regular tennis matches, played on a well-kept court. Such is the style of life to which deposed Strongman George Papadopoulos and members of the former Greek military junta have become accustomed inside Athens' Korydallos prison, where they have been serving sentences since 1975. Details of the systematic coddling of the notorious jailbirds are contained in a recollection to be published...