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Coach Floyd Wilson's strategy to halt Bradley and Company hit the jackpot. In the first half scrappy Crimson guard Leo Scully covered Bradley, and the Nassau sensation scored only 13 points. During the second half Harvard unfolded a smooth-functioning zone, which forced the Tiger to shoot from outside. Bradley added 17 more for his output of 30, two below his average...
...Paleys have a house at Round Hill in Jamaica, and they are building another house in Nassau. They maintain an apartment in Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. And they have a place at Squam Lake in New Hampshire, where Paley tears up the back roads at 80 m.p.h. in his Facel-Vega...
...abroad-though not so much from Mother Britain. Long a tax haven for investors (no income tax, only a modest property tax), the Bahamas are pulling in new capital so fast that some call the islands "the Switzerland of the Western Hemisphere." One of the biggest law offices in Nassau 'is literally speckled with shingles identifying the "registered offices" of U.S. corporations basking in the balmy tax climate; so many wealthy Americans and Canadians are transferring funds south that Nassau boasts no fewer than 15 banks. "When we arrived in 1947," says an officer of Barclays Royal Bank...
Clouds of balloons floated out over the harbor and bright flags decorated staid old Bay Street in downtown Nassau. Past the reviewing stand, filled with bewigged and berobed colony officials, marched rows of schoolboys while policemen in starched white uniforms stood stiffly at attention and thousands of children sang and cheered. Thus did something called "limited independence" come to the Bahamas, Great Britain's 700 islands scattered over 90,000 square miles of sunny ocean off the tip of Florida...
...tinkled and bountiful blondes chased their heroes through the pits, Gurney took the wheel of a bright orange Volkswagen and challenged all comers in a 103-mile race. His car was a 1956 sedan with 250,000 miles on the speedometer. It was, in fact, his personal car in Nassau-and his wife fretted nervously while inspectors stripped it apart to make sure that no slick mechanic had installed a Cadillac engine. "I hope they can get it back together," she said. "This is our transportation...