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...keel to get more speed in light air, and he was a mite discouraged by his boat's record of four losses, only one victory. "It's too early to start blaming the boat," he insisted. "Our tactics need sharpening. Twice in a row, we overstood the windward marks. Several times we used the wrong spinnakers. We're just making mistakes...
...passengers were soon dead nevertheless. As dawn broke, the rescue fleet, now swollen to some 20 vessels, looked out on a vast scene of lifeboat debris and bobbing bodies. Despite the calm seas, it was not easy to pick them up. The rafts and lifeboats kept banging into the windward side of the waiting merchantmen; hour after hour the arduous task continued, until at last all the living and dead were hauled aboard. On the Salta, which picked up 478 people from the sea, cognac and blankets were passed out to the shivering survivors, but the crush was so great...
...interested in Haiti, according to a former special Presidential adviser on Latin American affairs. Adolf A. Berle claims that between 2,500 and 10,000 French-speaking African Communists arrived in Havana early in May with Haiti as a final destination. "Some are said already to have crossed the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti by small boats, infiltrating the Haitian mountains," Mr. Berle wrote in the May 23 Reporter...
...gambling, nightclubbing, and those who only want to be within earshot of a whispering palm. From the shivering north of Manhattan two teams went reconnoitering in the sun-one to the northern islands, from the Bahamas to the Virgins, the other down the stepping stones of the Leeward and Windward Islands to Trinidad. Correspondents Ed Reingold and Kenneth Froslid and Photographer J. Alex Langley did the first, and Rosemary Frank and Carl Mydans the second. They came back talking of their struggles in renting Jeeps, planes, sailboats and motorboats to make their rounds, and insisting on what a hard...
...LEEWARDS & WINDWARDS. South of the Virgins, where the mounting air fare begins to screen out the junior executives, are the Leeward and Windward Islands. Some of these the chic international jet-setters are currently making "In" by their presence-until the inevitable turning point when the un-chic join them in sufficient numbers to drive them somewhere else, and the word again goes round that "Nobody goes there any more, my dear." One island so In that almost no body knows about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with...