Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India is the world's richest market for smugglers. One man who took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott...
...Shot. Walcott first turned up in India in the early 1960s as president of a four-plane freight airline. Suavely posing as an American millionaire, he won a contract from Air-India to haul freight between landlocked Afghanistan and Indian rail centers. Traveling freely throughout India, Walcott often made short hops in his twin-engine Piper Apache until one day in 1962, when police checked the plane and found a crate that everyone had assumed contained spare parts for one of Walcott's laid-up DC-4s. Instead police found 10,000 rounds of 12-gauge ammunition, an item...
Arrested on a minor smuggling charge, Walcott languished in the Delhi jail for half a year until his bail was posted by Air-India's prestigious chairman, J. R. D. Tata. Then Walcott left India for points unknown, but he dutifully returned a few months later for the trial. He was found guilty, fined $420, but the prison sentence was commuted to the time he had already spent in jail. Walcott was free but not his Piper, which had been seized for debts. No one, however, seemed to mind that Walcott continued to care for the plane, pouring...
...Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted storytellers (V. S. Reid, Samuel Selvon, Clement Richer, Lydia Cabrera, Albert Helman). Many of them are Negro or part-Negro, and they write in several languages (Dutch, English, French, Spanish). Their works, sampled in this arresting anthology by U.S. Poet Barbara Howes...
Died. Dan Florio, 68, one of prizefighting's best-known trainers, himself a fair-to-middling onetime bantamweight, who in 47 years on the other side of the ropes turned out a dozen world champions, among them Jersey Joe Walcott and Floyd Patterson, whom the ever hopeful Florio hoped to see gain his crown for the third time in next month's match against Cassius Clay; of complications following gall-bladder surgery; in Jamaica, Queens...