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...Stafford Sands, 50, Minister of Finance and Tourism: "We're best off selling the product we have-the world's best climate plus easy accessibility to the world's biggest travel population." Drawing 546,000 tourists last year, the Bahamas doubled Bermuda's tourist intake, outdrew Jamaica 3 to 2, and ranked only behind Puerto Rico in total Caribbean tourist trade. Some Bahamians feel that their archipelago will soon outstrip Puerto Rico, and Sands predicts a 1,000,000-tourist year by 1971. One new lure: gambling. In the Bahamas' first real plunge, a casino...
...campaign trips indicates he has not only wide but also enthusiastic support. He has attracted crowds everywhere he has gone, even in such northern states as New Jersey where he addressed a fund raising dinner similar to one at which Nelson Rockefeller was featured speaker several months ago. He outdrew Rockefeller in both attendance and applause...
...home on Coogan's Bluff, the Mets even outdrew the pin-striped New York Yankees. In one hectic week, nearly 200,000 screaming, clapping, foot-stomping fans swarmed into the Polo Grounds to watch them lose three games to the Los Angeles Dodgers and another four to the San Francisco Giants. Banners fluttered in the bleachers-WE LOVE OUR METS: RUN SHEEP RUN-and the din was deafening...
American Telephone & Telegraph's annual stockholder meeting, held for the first time outside New York City, in Chicago's McCormick Place exposition center, outdrew even the opening game of the White Sox home season. The 18,420 shareholders, the largest number ever assembled for any company's meeting, could hardly have helped being pleased: in the twelve months ending Feb. 28, earnings rose to $1,226,746,000, the greatest profit ever made by any corporation...
...Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden, who said that he was surprised that B.C. outdrew the varsity in the area, estimated that the 1960 home attendance was slightly better than the post-war average...