Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave-taking from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took...
Harkins got into the Army by accident. Born in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston in 1904, he was the second of five children of Edward Harkins. a reporter and drama critic on Boston newspapers for 50 years. The elder Harkins, who is now 90, had his own ideas of what was culturally best for his three sons, and for Boston. Paul's brother, Philip, now a novelist in California, remembers grimly that "every Friday afternoon he made all of us go to the Boston Symphony, where we had to sit without moving or wriggling on the hardest wooden...
...inherits some serious economic difficulties. Manley's earnest efforts to expand sugar and bauxite production have tripled Jamaica's gross national product to $675 million. But 93% of the island's 1,600,000 people are still on a bare subsistence level and unemployment still runs at 18% of the 700,000-man labor force. Nor does it help that Manley's forced-draft programs have turned a $9,800,000 treasury surplus into a $115 million debt. Jamaica can no longer count on London for money, having dropped out of the West Indies Federation, leaving...
...Bustamante had a plan to improve matters, he was keeping it to himself. But he obviously sees a large role for the U.S., whose tourists already bring $38 million a year to Jamaica. While Manley had conducted a mild flirtation with the Soviet bloc, Busta was now looking steadfastly West. "There will be no neutrality from this day on," he announced. "I will go to the U.S. shortly to make a mutual defense treaty." As an afterthought, the Chief delightedly noted: "The Kremlin has not sent congratulations to me-and they damn well wouldn...
...instance: the heroine of this picture (Janet Blair), wife of a sociology professor in a small English college, is a witch. Having learned black magic from a sorcerer in Jamaica, she comes back to Britain laden with abracadebris (dead spiders, pickled fingers, esoteric herbs) and secretly begins to bewitch her husband. Her motives are wifely in the best bourgeois tradition: she only wants to keep her husband safe from other witches, and to make sure he does well in his job. He does very well indeed. Before the first reel runs out, he seems certain to become chairman...