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...real vacation in Jamaica. "The placid tourists are led around by their pudgy, green wallets, so dazzled by the physical beauty that they rarely see anything of the real Jamacia," he intones. The real beauty in Jamacia is not in Kingston. "gasping and choking on it blood and its rum" and "exuding a mutant virility," but atop Blue Mountain Peak, where students can stay very cheaply on an old coffee plantation...
...possible." Marsteller tested the product, the name and the advertising on four panels of women, from conservative matrons to young "sophisticates" (including a movie producer's daughter and a topless dancer). Most of the panelists liked the idea, though some recommended eliminating heavy, sweet flavors, like peach rum. The manufacturer took their advice...
...Raquel has a shy Puritan heart, she also has the kind of forthright Puritan mind that in early America could probably have reconciled Scripture with slaving and rum-running. On-screen she may be the ultimate prehistoric predator, but in real life she is a carefully pre-fabricated commodity, a paradigm of the harddriving, self-made New Woman who just happened to choose acting as a career. "I'll admit I'm extremely strong-minded," says Raquel. "I don't know any other...
...frivolity will get in the way of his scheme. Castro is delaying Christmas, New Year's and the Jan. 2 anniversary of the revolution. Celebrations would only "interrupt the harvest," he explained last week. So, he said: "We will save our suckling pig and Christmas Eve beans, Bacardi rum and beer for July." What if the 1970 harvest falls short, as outside experts predict? Who knows? Perhaps in that case the Bearded One will hold off the other bearded one, Santa Claus, a while longer...
...Winston Churchill said of the traditions of the Royal Navy just before World War I: "What are they? Rum, sodomy and the lash...