Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noncom in the Marine Corps, Beckwith was a machine gunner in the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Wounded in the chest before reaching the beach at Tarawa, he saved himself by swimming half a mile to a reef. He married a Navy WAVE, Mary Louise Williams, a descendant of Rhode Island's Founding Father Roger Williams...
...Millionaire Tree, who has built a handsome Palladian house in Barbados, spared no expense in building and furnishing his hotel. Jet-setters have been flocking there; its 100 beds are currently booked through mid-March (at $36 to $57). So are the other leading hotels, such as the Coral Reef Club and Sam Lord's Castle, a West Indies manor house carefully restored at a cost...
Barbuda is 28 miles north of Antigua, which has been definitely In for the past few years, mainly because of the presence of the Mill Reef Club at Exchange Bay. Founded by Robertson ("Happy") Ward, a designer of tropical resorts, Mill Reef is spread over 1,440 acres, where 50 proprietary members have houses (there are 250 additional members), and there are 31 rooms for guests. Rates for two people: $50 a day. Non-members may come only once; unless they are invited to become members or visit a member, that's the last they see of Mill Reef...
...high, she footed fast, she simply could not be caught-even by accident. Just one-quarter mile from the finish line, Gretel's light blue Genoa jib tore loose from its main clew and flopped overboard. But the damage was quickly repaired and Gretel swept triumphantly past Brenton Reef lightship, with Vim trailing in her wake...
Prototype of the co-ops is the Mill Reef Club on isolated Antigua in the Leeward Islands. Opened in 1948 by U.S. Millionaire Robertson Ward, the club sprawls over 1.300 landscaped acres, has twelve sandy beaches, an 18-hole golf course. Membership (now closed) is rigidly screened to guarantee that openings do not go to just any old millionaire. Sixty-six members (among them: Francis du Pont) own winter homes on club property. With annual expenditures of $500,000. the club is impoverished Antigua's biggest single source of income...