Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation that calls itself the West Indies is only ten months old, but last week the major politicians of its fastest growing island member, Jamaica, threatened to secede. The inevitable dispute: islands' rights v. federal power...
...GORDON W. MATTICE First Presbyterian Church Jamaica...
Divorced. Sir John Huggins, 66, retired British Governor in Chief of Jamaica (1943-51), who bolted to Italy in June with his wife's 45-year-old dressmaker; by blonde, wholesome Lady Huggins, who knew what hit her ("My husband is a victim of the 30-year itch"); after 29 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in Southampton, England...
Cricket at Harvard is truly an Experiment in International Living, for yesterday's eleven was composed of players from six countries: Australia, England, Jamaica, Hyderabad, Bermuda, and Canada. The Harvard Cricket Club has members from all the schools of the University as well as Eastment and Binns, who is currently enrolled in Wentworth Institute...
...will agree that Dr. No, which Macmillan will publish in the U.S. in July, is magnificent writing, but pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: "At last, an unprintable book that is readable." Secret Agent Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate some mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops off to sleep...