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...into Miami International Airport in broad daylight en route from New York International Airport to Bogota, Colombia, an Avianca Super Constellation had trouble with its No. 3 engine, went back to the line for repairs. Finally, in the air ten hours behind schedule, the Constellation touched down at fashionable Montego Bay, Jamaica at 2:35 a.m., skidded off the runway when its left landing gear collapsed, flipped over and burst into flames. Dead: 37, burned alive hanging upside down in their seat belts or struggling to get out. Safe: four crewmen who scrambled out of the pilots' compartment, four...
Died. Manuel Jimenez, 33, jaunty, slapstick Spanish matador who spiced up his bullfights with so many daring stunts (his favorite: making a pass without looking at the bull) that the Spanish public considered him the matador most likely to die in the ring; in an airline crash at Montego Bay, Jamaica, that killed 36 others (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Caribbean's U.S. and British islands, which are both politically and isothermally hospitable, the winter tourist season was at its peak last week, and the peak had never been so high. "Don't even mention Caribbean to me," complained the New York manager of Happiness Tours. "Montego Bay, San Juan, Kingston. St. Thomas-all hopelessly jammed through April...
...both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill ($60 a day and up) howled as Guest Moss Hart played and sang his own off-color songs...
Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...