Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a weekend jaunt to Mexico City for the annual running of the "Caribbean Classic," Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, ran into a stretch of bad luck. First, the general, who seized power in a coup 14 months ago, lost a bundle on a Panamanian nag that had the nerve to finish fifth in a field of twelve. Then, back in Panama City, a couple of colonels tried to make it a daily double by turning him out of office in a countercoup. The result, within 48 fast-moving hours, was a counter-countercoup, something that not even...
...School in 1954, Itkin began his undercover activities almost immediately as an informant for Senator Joseph McCarthy. The McCarthy connection led to an introduction to Allen Dulles, then Central Intelligence Agency director. Itkin joined the agency and was used mainly as a payoff man in Britain and in the Caribbean. "In the 1960s, I began to meet hoods," he recalls. "They were the best source of information in the Caribbean." While working with the CIA, Itkin managed to maintain a lucrative law practice. In fact, his CIA connections lengthened his list of clients and for a while he was making...
...moment the center's situation room may be monitoring events as varied as an outbreak of leaf-cutting ants in Peru, an unusual polar bear kill in the Arctic, or the drift of a floating island in the Caribbean. After the flight of Apollo 11, it reported the lunar rumblings recorded by the seismometer left behind at Tranquillity Base. Even the recent discovery of a primitive jungle tribe in Surinam fell within the category of passing phenomena. Reason: the Indians' Stone Age culture will change so rapidly under the impact of civilization that anthropologists may lose a rare...
...Caribbean Social Structure, taught by Orlando Patterson, currently a lecturer at the University of the West Indies with a Ph. D. in sociology from the London School of Economics...
...finds have come from sponges collected from as far away as Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Palau in the Caroline Islands. When he arrived in Rhode Island last week, he had scarcely dried off from a scuba-diving, sponge-hunting expedition on the outermost edge of the Caribbean, between the British islands of Virgin Gorda and Anegada. Burkholder made his dives with an assistant, Robert Brody, who is completing his doctoral work on the gorgonians, or "soft corals." Together they snipped off specimens of the most familiar gorgonian, the purplish fan coral, and a variety of sponges...