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...Sons of Habitués." Starting each pleasant day, David Dubinsky, grizzled chief of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, went down to the hotel pool in a flowing bathrobe, red and black sandals. Afternoons-to rest from the brief morning business sessions-he spent swimming in the surf with his 13-year-old granddaughter. Spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky of Amalgamated Clothing Workers strolled poolward in a natty blue-and-white beach jacket and Hollywoodish sunglasses. Sparking the livelier set, the Electrical Workers' Carey demonstrated fancy dives from handstands on the high board. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany appeared...
Reel McCoy. Near Hyannis, Mass., Surf Fisherman George Vasquez got a firm strike, braced for battle, slowly played his catch to shore, landed a live, 70-in., rubber-flippered male skindiver...
...week later, a second new hotel will open-the 297-room, $7,200,000 twelve-story La Concha (The Seashell) on the San Juan beachfront. With a casino, eight restaurants and cocktail lounges, a sea-shell-shaped nightclub set by surf's edge. La Concha is aimed to please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio...
There beside the whisper of the surf, Oopa, who was once a fried-potato vendor and then a carpenter, roared like a Paris Assemblyman. Under the slogan, "Tahiti for the Tahitians; Frenchmen into the sea!", Oopa's Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People swept last year's elections, and Oopa, 63, became Premier of Polynesia. Oopa accused the French of allowing the islands' copra-and-phosphate economy to stagnate in the face of a population explosion that has doubled the population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated...
Reel McCoy. Near Hyannis, Mass., Surf Fisherman George Vasquez got a firm strike, braced for battle, slowly played his catch to shore, landed a live, 70-in., rubber-flippered male skindiver...