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Typical of those not entirely pleased was Jamaica's Chief Minister Norman Manley, who at first demanded almost complete and immediate self-government for the new member of the British Commonwealth. But bringing together Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward and Windward Islands, with a population of 3,000,000 spread over 1,000 miles of water, clearly called for some compromise of Manley's demands. So strong was the compromise movement that the delegates even agreed to let a committee of outsiders help choose a capital site...
...totals were: Harvard, 99; M.I.T., 95; Boston College, 80; Tuft, 75; Northeastern, 72; and Boston University, 63. Fred Brooks of M.I.T. took a flyer wide to the leeward in hope of picking...
...once they had gathered, island leaders tacitly agreed that federation-which amounts to making a British dominion out of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands-would be meaningless if the bars stayed up. The islands' elder statesman, Barbados' Premier Grantley Herbert Adams, set forth the case for free movement, Trinidadian Labor Minister Albert Gomes offered concessions, and Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley soon brought them into agreement...
Last week, after years of such debate, a new hope rose for some of the backward Indies. In London, the Colonial Office announced that most of Britain's West Indian islands had agreed to federate. Next spring, delegates from the legislatures of Jamaica, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands will meet in London to draw up a charter. By the time they have settled on terms, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and continental British Guiana and British Honduras may be ready to join in a federation of all British possessions in the Caribbean...
When the wind blows across a steep, high range, it does not merely veer up and then down. As it descends the leeward slope, the wind often breaks into thick, white, turbulent clouds called "rotors" that look rather like surf foaming up on a beach. Above the rotors are high oscillations in the air, which sometimes reach...