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SPARKLE AND SHADOW IN THE CARIBBEAN: The Need for International Co-operation Among the Islands

... the British Caribbean colonies, and the problem has been rendered still more difficult by backsliding on the part of Jamaica or, better said, of its Mr. Busta- mente (formerly Clark). Here we come up with a cardjnal obstruction to Caribbean co-operation ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1845 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

STORMING VIEQUES ISLAND: American Troops Stage a Spectacular Amphibious Exercise in the Caribbean

... of Vieques, a sun-baked island just east of Puerto Rico, they brought to a climax a week of spectacular manoeuvres in the Caribbean designed essentially to show in what measure the danger of atom-bomb attack affects the conduct of vast amphibious operations ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 533 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW LIFE FOR THE BLIMP: NOW A CARRIER-BASED WEAPON OF WAR

... WARFARE A blimp descending to the flight-deck of the United States escort ci. :er Sicily during recent naval exercises in the Caribbean in which it was demonstrated that the blimp's range and usefulness could be vastly K- increased. The blimp descended twice ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

MAINLY ANTHOLOGICAL: From Alexander Pope to Alec Waugh

... emerges at the same time what is almost a companion volume to Professor Richardson's. This is A. W. Acworth's TREASURE IN THE CARIBBEAN (Pleiades Books. 12s. 6d.), a first study of Georgian buildings in the West Indies. Jamaica, the Leewards, Trinidad and Barbados ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 973 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

MEADS AND METHEGLINS

... attack upon Britain's West Indian stewardship, but a moderately entertaining account of the wanderings of Mr. Brown in the Caribbean, of his ship board companions and experiences. He touches only upon the fringe of Jamaican life, and at the finish the reader ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MALTA'S ATTACKING ROLE: Sir Hugh Lloyd's Enthralling Narrative

... deserves a stiff cover. Katherine Dunham, the coloured ballet star, was in London in the autumn of 1948, when she appeared in Caribbean Rhapsody, and, believe it or not, gave a lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. In KATHERINE DUNHAM HER DANCERS ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A FOREIGN NEWS SURVEY: Events Abroad as the Year Drew to a Close

... the town. The youths were driving a car they had stolen two hours previously in another Dart of the city BIDDING FOR THE CARIBBEAN TOURIST TRADE-- the OPENING OF THE NEW 7,000,000 DOLLAR CARIBE HILTON HOTEL AT SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO: On left and right- ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 982 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

FOREIGN NEWS IN PICTURES: A Survey of World Events

... I and 2. FLURRY IN THE CARIBBEAN: Lord Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands, who returned to London earlier in the year to meet the Colonial Secretary, journeyed back to Antigua in the S.S. Barfleur, from Dieppe, and on arrival received a welcome ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1129 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM TWO HEMISPHERES: NEWS FROM EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES

... be opened in December in time for the Christmas festivities. In all, there are 300 air-conditioned rooms BIDDING FOR THE CARIBBEAN TOURIST TRADE The ocean-front view of the Caribo Hilton Hotel at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The un usually-designed hotel will ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs