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...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 opened its doors this month at Canadian Financier Lou Chesler's Lucayan Beach Hotel on Grand Bahama...
...establishes that the Government is liable at most for proved negligence of its employees. Contractors, except a few working for the Atomic Energy Commission or doing Defense Department research, are on their own; if their products are at fault in a catastrophe, they can be liable for enough to outstrip any conceivable insurance and bankrupt them many times over. But to collect even a few cents on the dollar, the victim would probably face the staggering job of pinning down in court exactly which of perhaps dozens of contractors and subcontractors were actually to blame...
...loyal Macmillan ally, Lloyd acidly wrote the Prime Minister: "I realize the policies with which I've been associated have been unpopular. On the other hand, I believe they have been right ... I know you are well aware that the growth of public expenditure should not outstrip our resources...
...gradually became apparent, he said, that the Industrial Revolution made it possible for production to outstrip population growth, thereby nullifying the value of "you-or-me" warfare...
...trouble, of course, is not with science, but only with the use we make of science. But I am confident it is your deep hope, as it is ours, that the scientist as human will presently outstrip the scientist who is simply the builder of a more efficient tool," he said...