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Shaped like a thousand-mile boot lying on its side, with Jamaica at the top, the Leeward Islands at the heel. Trinidad at the toe, The West Indies unites...
...eight tiny Leeward Islands, 1,000 miles to the east, of which Antigua (108 sq. mi.) is the largest. Site of Alexander Hamilton's birthplace (Nevis, 1757) and Britain's first toehold in the Spanish Main (St. Kitt's, 1623), the Leewards are historically rich, economically poor...
...making its decision, the commission quickly passed over the small and scattered islands of the Leeward and Windward groups (see map). Then it thumbed down Trinidad because of "widespread reports of corruption," and Jamaica because it is by far the largest and most prosperous of all the island colonies and might tend to dominate the rest. Barbadians were quietly pleased and Jamaicans accepted the decision, but Trinidadians were angry. When delegates meet in Jamaica Jan. 22 to decide finally on the capital site, Trinidad seemed most likely to bring along the fireworks...
...calm ocean "that would make their rescue easier, a wan moon overhead, and across the water the French liner closing in, with all lights turned on to cheer them. Searchlights fingered across the black water as monocled Captain Raoul de Beaudean maneuvered He de France to the leeward side of Andrea Doria to shelter the ten boats she was lowering from the wind...
Skipper Geib and his six-man crew on the Fleetwood played it cozy all the way. Geib stayed to leeward of the sloop Rangoon, took warning when squalls hit her and she heeled over, had ample time to douse his own spinnaker. Never for a moment did he really stop racing. With his light hull and yawl rig, Nick Geib could hoist plenty of canvas, and the race was a spinnaker run most of the way. He never hesitated to use that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever...