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First, it must enact a customs union of the islands. Tariffs are now a jumble. Antigua collects duties on goods in transshipment to St. Kitts. which in turn collects another duty upon arrival (smuggling is commonplace). Jamaica's industries are protectively walled off. will presumably suffer from competition from other islands. The new law will have to eliminate these barriers, create a common market, set common tariffs, provide for negotiating commercial treaties with other nations...
...into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates) in half an hour. To ferry these around, Maksik employs roughly 100 waiters (in black cutaways and black-and-gold-striped waistcoats), 40 busboys and seven captains. Counting his bartenders, stagehands and bandsmen, Maksik has 275 people on his staff...
...Officials said tonight that Russia's newest diplomatic note shows the Kremlin wants to turn a summit conference into a propaganda circus' instead of seeking meaningful agreements...
Disappearing Labels. Some downtown churches such as First English Evangelical in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle have had to turn themselves into "friendliness" churches, reaching out among the 9-to-5 weekday population around them for what congregations they can get. Lutherans in the mushrooming suburb of North Hollywood have organized a drive-in church. Pastor Glen E. Pierson of Manhattan's 92-year-old Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church describes a process that is taking place all over the U.S. when he says: "We used to be thought of by our own members, as well as by people...
...Tragic Beauty." A slight, unprepossessing man with a boyish face and frizzly red hair, Costigan is an actor of considerable force. He has played on such shows as Studio One and Omnibus. His "dismal" years as a Broadway stage hopeful helped turn Costigan into a TV playwright. In 1953 he ground out four original TV plays and six adaptations, then took off for a year in France and Ireland. Three times since then he has "gone home" to the country of his ancestors to absorb "the tragic beauty of the land, dark and sweet and green...