Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely source of the Brazilians' consorcio is the esusu of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Whether it was originally introduced to the New World by Africans, Chinese or East Indians, this popular method of saving is now known as boxi money in Guyana, meeting in Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas, and chitty (the Hindi form from English chit) or susu in Trinidad. The Brazilian flair is in raising the ante to allow major purchases, and in raising the tone of the whole operation by calling the group a "consortium." I predict West Indians will be purchasing...
...years of carting his clubs around the world, De Vicenzo since has won upwards of 120 tournaments, including the national open championships of Argentina (six times), Brazil (three times), Chile (three times), Jamaica (three times), Panama (twice), Uruguay (twice), Mexico (twice), France (three times), Germany, Holland, Belgium and Spain. On Britain's wind swept par-72 Royal Liverpool Golf Club course two weeks ago, Roberto fired rounds of 70, 71, 67 and 70 to beat Defending Champion Jack Nicklaus by two strokes and add the prestigious British Open title to his collection...
...Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the same organization that, billing itself as the Black Liberation Front, had cooked up a cabal two years ago to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell. This time, according to police, under the cover title of the Jamaica Rifle and Pistol Club, RAM members were drawing up a plot to assassinate N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. and at least three other moderate Negro leaders. The apparent idea was to blame the killings on whites and inspire nationwide racial uprisings. The only hitch...
...composition with Ernst Toch for a year. In 1953, he got the chance to do the score for the British comedy film Genevieve; his music won an Academy Award nomination, and led to writing and playing assignments for another 15 movies (recently King and Country, A High Wind in Jamaica...
...some 150 New York City birders, the search centered on Long Island's Jamaica Bay, where the stealthier spotters bellied through the wet marsh grass as if sneaking up on a machine-gun nest. Though they found a number of rare birds, they were disappointed at total counts, which were as small as 100 species. And in Illinois, 50 members of the Champaign County Audubon Society slogged through mud and rain, uphill and down, for views of herons and chimney swifts, wood ducks and Blackburnian warblers-and a day's total...