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...Dayton, when a judge told Guillermo Angel Valerin that his fine for drunk and disorderly conduct would be "diez y ocho dólares y sesenta centavos" ($18.60), Mrs. Valerin said: "I'm sorry, judge, but we'd understand you much better if you spoke English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...development is Jamaica's great tourist boom. Before World War II the island was little more than a cruise-ship stop. But postwar air travel has increased the traffic far beyond the island's capacity to handle it. A burst of hotel building at Montego Bay and Ocho Rios has raised Jamaica's hotel space to 3,000 first-class rooms priced up to $50 a day (double room, American plan) during the winter season. Even so, hotel owners turn down hundreds of applications every winter week (and are beginning to do a brisk summer trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Island in the Sun | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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