Word: jamaica
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DIED. Dr. Robert Collier Page, 69, founding chairman of the Occupational Health Institute and pioneer advocate of company-paid preventive medicine for blue-collar workers; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. While studying dying miners in the grimy English town of Leeds in 1933-34, he concluded that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive...
...latest sign that drug smuggling along the region's seacoast has swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass from South America was seized after landing in Bedford, Mass...
...southern border. New England's 250 colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says Edward Cass, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Someone would buy a boat, pick up a crew at some marina, go down to Jamaica or Colombia and drop a ton of the grass off on the Florida coast, a ton off at the Carolinas, then a ton in Rhode Island and in Maine." Most of the smugglers were young adventurers (including some from as far away as Australia) with no serious criminal backgrounds...
...workaholic, chain-smoking, immaculately dressed Daniels has trimmed Playboy's bulging bureaucracy ("We had too many chiefs"). He abolished such jobs as vice president for public relations and for personnel, moving those functions to lower levels, and closed an unprofitable Playboy club in Detroit and a hotel in Jamaica. Daniels plans to concentrate on publishing, franchising-and gambling. The company's four casinos in England are its most profitable operation; they earned $10 million last year. Playboy plans a $50 million gambling palace in Atlantic City, N.J. Daniels also wants to license use of the company...
DIED. Sir William Alexander Bustamante, 93, Jamaica's flamboyant, crusading first Prime Minister; after a long illness; in Irish Town, Jamaica. After legendary adventures in Spain, Cuba and New York City, Bustamante returned to Jamaica to be a moneylender and eventually a union organizer. Dubbed the "Lion of the Caribbean" because of his imposing frame and charismatic appeal, he led the country's movement to secede from the West Indies Federation in 1961. At times quixotic but always determined, Bustamante proved to be one of democracy's staunchest defenders at a time when other Caribbean leaders cowered...