Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arnold Arboretum, a vast Harvard-administered horticultural garden in Jamaica Plain off Route 1, may be partially destroyed if the city of Boston persists in its plans to build a 30 acre consolidated high school in the area, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...rush has left the islands' hotelkeepers, restaurateurs and developers in a slightly dazed state of euphoria. In 1950 some 32,000 tourists visited Nassau; in 1962 there were 438,000. In the same period, visitors to Jamaica jumped from about 74,000 to 223,000. The Virgin Islands' share rose from 15,000 in 1949 to 300,000 last year, Puerto Rico's from 65,000 to about 500,000. Looking to the future, Caribbean developers note with gratification that the average age of the winterized tourist is decreasing. Only five years ago, most tourists were...
...JAMAICA. This, one of the most variegated islands in the Caribbean, and one of the most scenically spectacular in the world, has been an outpost of British culture for some 300 years, and its English tradition has paid off in the political sophistication and orderly ease with which the Jamaicans have taken to their present status as independent members of the British Commonwealth...
...exploits have tremendous artistry. He paints a hideous mural of the raising of Lazurus in the flat of a vacationing patron, and finishes just in time to cover a large hole in the floor, his work, too, with several yards of Persian carpet before the millionaire returns from Jamaica, In a Marx Brothers movie the patron would (naturally) fall through the hole; in the world of Gully Jimson, the man, his wife, and his secretary stumble onto the rug and sink, majustically and inevitably, towards the floor beneath...
Moral disapproval is rarely an effective force in international business. Opponents of South Africa's white supremacy policies are discovering the validity of this old truism. Three years ago, when Jamaica launched a boycott of South African goods which was eventually joined by 17 other African, Asian and West Indian countries, South Africa's exporters were badly worried. A year later, after South Africa left the Commonwealth in high dudgeon, foreign investors began to pull capital out of the country at such a rate that foreign reserves sank to an anemic $15 million, and the government was forced...