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...Vegas or Puerto Rico just to roll a few legal dice? Grand Bahama Island, a mere 75 miles off Miami, has been granted a ten-year license for a gambling casino, and now Huntington Hartford, 52, wants similar licenses granted to the rest of the Bahamas, including one small dot named Paradise Island (H. Hartford prop.) just off Nassau. It would solve a lot of problems, he says. First he would immediately build 1,000 first-class hotel rooms on Paradise, thus providing jobs for unemployed Bahamians. Then he would give 50% of the net gambling profit to the government...
...densely packed residents without turning into a cohesive city. The Valley's loudest voice is a giveaway newspaper, the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, which covers the area as comprehensively as smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying to boost it into the big time. Circu lation eventually rose a paltry 1,600. In the same period, the Green Sheet's non-paying...
...From the towers' tips, cables string out to suspend a tangle of girders over the center of the bowl. The complete contraption looks like the product of some errant giant playing with an outsize Erector set. But at its dedication in the hills south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, last week, the great scope was tuned and ready-a sharp and farseeing eye focused on the farthest reaches of the universe...
...travelers entering the U.S. last week from Jamaica and Puerto Rico were closely checked for signs of a disease that most of them never heard of: dengue (pronounced deng-gay) fever. The disease hit the Caribbean in July. Ever since, officials with an anxious eye on the coming winter's tourist trade (normally 20,000 to 25,000 visitors a month for Puerto Rico alone) have been waiting hopefully for the epidemics to die out. They are still waiting. New cases last week brought Jamaica's 1963 total close to 500, while Puerto Rico passed...
...pain it has caused, the Caribbean flare-up of dengue has hadsome worthwhile effects. It has spurred authorities in both Jamaica and Puerto Rico to step up their neglected anti-mosquito spraying. And Congress has appropriated $3,000,000 as a starter on a $45 million campaign to wipe out Aëdes aegypti completely...