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SEAGRAMS OF CANADA, which has been looking for a name-brand rum to add to its line, finally found one in the British West Indies. Seagrams bought the Myers Rum companies in Jamaica and the Bahamas, will continue to make Myers' dark Jamaican...
...Hugh was the first Jamaican chief executive to touch what is now Haitian soil since Acting Governor Sir Henry Morgan, the respectably retired pirate, was shipwrecked on French Hispaniola 279 years ago. In Sir Hugh's honor, the Foreign Minister put on an elegant ball, and the tall, slim governor gamely accommodated his swooping waltz style to the intricacies of the Haitian meringue...
...King's House, mansion of the island governor, Sir Hugh Foot, next day made by Elizabeth a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. After three days, embarking for the Panama Canal Zone on the 15,902-ton liner Gothic, the Queen was startled when a dusky Jamaican, impetuously turned Raleigh, tossed his linen jacket at her feet. Ignoring the incident, the Queen walked on. This week, after landing at Cristobal, Elizabeth and Philip spent a busy day inspecting the canal and attending a state dinner given by Panama's President Jose Antonio Remon. Early next morning...
Hole in the Wallpaper. A Jamaican moved into a flat formerly occupied by a quiet, well-dressed chap named John Reginald Halliday Christie. Scouting about for a place to install a bathtub, he accidentally poked through a piece of wallpaper in the kitchen. A woman's leg fell out through the opening. He ran into the street shouting murder...
Next day, with a careful, old man's gait, Churchill clambered into the presidential DC-6, the Independence, and headed off for two weeks in the Jamaican sunshine-which was, all pundits to the contrary, the primary reason for Churchill's American trip. In Manhattan, at week's end, Dwight Eisenhower said that he had recently asked "a man who is 78 years old-one of the world's great leaders," if it wasn't time for him to retire. The statesman's answer: "My opportunity for my greater service to my country probably...