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Unlike most other islands of the impoverished Antilles, Jamaica can boast of more than sunshine and scenery. By the low living standards of the Caribbean, Jamaica's 1,500,000 inhabitants are comparatively well off. Jamaica's soft-spoken natives (80% Negro) look healthy, clean and sleek beside the ragged poor of neighboring islands. Most of them wear shoes, and at least 70% can read and write. Rarely is a beggar seen in the orderly capital of Kingston (pop. 155,000), a city of paved streets, department stores, supermarkets and good restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Island in the Sun | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...seemed to mind. The U.S. public has come to worship high-performance cars, and here were the latest sleek and high-powered family autos performing at their rarely possible, full-throttle best. For the first time since 1936, when stock car racing began at Daytona, last week's speed trials seemed like the high old times of the early '20s, when every auto factory sponsored a racing stable. Here once more were big names of auto racing-Mauri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed on the Beach | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Truman tax scandals, a star performer was chunky, sleek Abraham Teitelbaum, a Chicago lawyer whose clients included the late Al Capone. To a House subcommittee. Teitelbaum shrilled out a fantastic story of how two men had tried to shake him down for $500,000. The "or else": he'd get into "bad tax trouble" if he didn't pay. Last week in Chicago, a federal court jury found him guilty of evading $135,060 in income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Capone's Lawyer | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Hammarskjold's C-47 took off from Cairo's International Airport, a sleek new fighter plane flashed aloft from Almaza military airfield just four miles away The plane: one of the first of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's new Russian MIG jets to be seen over Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: The Listener | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...seventh floor of Chicago's fortress-like Furniture Mart one day last week, a grinning salesman pushed a button in the back of a sleek modern sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Furniture for Old | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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