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...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 opened its doors this month at Canadian Financier Lou Chesler...
...over $1 million has also been pledged from other private and public sources. The representatives of several Latin American countries have promised that their governments will donate as much as $100,000 to the fund. The first government to indicate support for the library was Venezuela; Mexico and Puerto Rico soon announced their intentions to contribute about $100,000 apiece...
...work" in Puerto Rico from December 28 to January 3, the Krokodiloes spent their last two days in the Virgin Islands, where they sang for several benefit concerts. The twelve man group also gave a short performance for Alfred V. Carpenter, benefactor of the Visual Arts Center, at his home in St. Croiz...
Powell's activities have been under special scrutiny since last spring when his use of government funds was questioned in the Congress. After an investigation of his trips to Europe, junkets to Puerto Rico, and consistent record of absenteeism, the House severly cut the budget for his committee. Powell in turn charged that the House action was directed at him because he was a Negro...
Even a final judgment may leave a winner little more than a moral victory. Though Congressman Powell has an income estimated above $60,000 a year and a house in Puerto Rico's secluded Vega Alta suburb, he talks poor-mouth when it comes to paying Mrs. James. He has repeatedly refused to post bond, even when her lawyer, Ray mond Rubin, offered to settle for a bond less than the full amount. And though the law offers a variety of measures for enforcing the judgment, Powell has so far frustrated them all simply by refusing to appear...