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...report on rules changes next March. Meanwhile, they proceeded with their annual meeting's more pleasant activities: serious private talk well moistened at lunches, cocktail bashes and elegant dinners. To provide a suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with a promise of free meals for 20 days, and quickly built...
...Yarmouth Castle pulled out of Miami, the towers of the beachfront hotels sparkled across the unruffled bay. Sailing with 375 passengers-more than 40 from a senior citizens' club in Pompano, Fla.-and a crew of 174, the cruise ship headed out on her twice-weekly, overnight run to Nassau. By midnight most of the passengers had gone to bed. At 1 a.m., 120 miles east of Miami, many were awakened by the smell of smoke seeping under their cabin doors. The Yarmouth Castle, a 5,000-ton, 38-year-old veteran under Panamanian registry, was on fire...
...achieve its dream of becoming "The Riviera of the West." Drilling equipment, under the contracts, must be buried under the surface of four man-made islands in the harbor, and pipelines must be concealed. Under state law, the city must use its royalties to improve a six-mile beachfront on which high-rise luxury apartments, marinas and a convention hall are already built. With oil wealth rolling in, the western Riviera will not even need a gambling casino to ensure its prosperity...
...southeast coast of Barbados. Winter rate for a single room including meals: $20 to $40 a day. Summer rate: $15 to $25. Last April, Cancel Bay Plantation in the Virgin Islands began offering a special package for honeymooners: champagne on arrival, free gifts, nine days and eight nights of beachfront living, all meals, a day's shopping in nearby St. Thomas (boat and car transportation included) -all for $158 per person. "Suddenly, wham!" says the manager. "Everything is really moving." Over at San Juan's newly opened, 452-room Americana
Local Hostility. Synanon's record in curing narcotics addicts is a matter of indifference to many of its respectable neighbors along the Santa Monica beachfront. Although the institution has won many friends in the community by dispatching its members to address local service-club meetings and high school assemblies, within days after it moved into the deserted armory a petition signed by 31 of Synanon's neighbors protested the invasion. Six months later, a municipal judge found Synanon guilty of violating the local zoning ordnance. A final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed last February when...