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Anchor to Windward. Before the Sports Center Authority undertook the tedious business of condemnation, O'Malley got up $5,000,000 as his share of the venture. He sold Ebbets Field to a real-estate operator named Marvin Kratter for $3,000,000, and signed a lease for the Dodgers to play there for three more years. He sold his Montreal farm club's park for $1,000,000, disposed of his Fort Worth park for another...
...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...
...Riding powder-puff breezes. Racing Master Carleton Mitchell skippered his stubby, 39-ft. Finisterre with his familiar finesse, made the most of a long windward beat to win the 184-mile blue-water Miami-Nassau race for the second year...
...angry sea poured into the holds to make an expanding porridge of the barley stowed below, those of the Pamir's crew who had escaped the fury of the pounding wreckage clung desperately to nets on the heaved-up windward side of the already sinking ship. When the Pamir went down, just two hours after the storm struck, many of the crew were already dead; some, swimming or clinging to debris in the water, were sucked down as the vessel sank; exhausted, others gave up soon afterward...
...four Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada), which are also small, beautiful and backward...