Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skipped high school to enter the University of Houston. From there he went to Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College Pal Jack Valenti, who later became L.B.J.'s aide, to form the Jamaica Corp., now a multimillion-dollar land-developing company. He also became president of Homestead State Bank. Thus, with experience and contacts, he was a natural in 1966 for L.B.J. to name to the three-man board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
Died. Sir Donald Sangster, 55, Prime Minister of Jamaica for seven weeks, who spent 18 years as self-effacing lieutenant of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the leader of Jamaica's push to independence in 1962 and its first Prime Minister, finally came into his own last January when "Busta," aging (83) and infirm, handed over the reins of his Jamaica Labor Party, which Sangster guided to victory in February's elections; of a brain hemorrhage; in Montreal. His successor is Union Leader Hugh Lawson Shearer, 43, appointed by the Governor General after a party caucus...
...architects who are designing Mather House have denied newspaper reports that they will pay damages in the $1.6 million settlement against them and two other firms for faulty construction of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jamaica Plain...
...regional grouping that would enable the West Indians to combine their resources. The five new states have agreed to establish a single supreme court-but so far, that is all. Past attempts at federation have flopped. The most notable one collapsed in 1962, when the larger islands of Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago, fearing that the smaller islands would become an economic burden on them, opted for full independence instead of a federal arrangement. One of the strongest opponents of federation was Antigua's Papa Bird, whose title last week was elevated from Chief Minister to Premier...
...content just to picture all these pleasures, Hefner has brought many of them to life, sort of. He operates 16 Playboy Clubs. He has opened a Caribbean Playboy resort in Jamaica and has started construction of a $9,000,000 year-round resort near Lake Geneva, Wis. Last year "HMH" enterprises sold $2,400,000 worth of products, ranging from tie clasps bearing the bunny insigne to bunny tail wall plaques...