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In addition, apart from meetings in foreign lands he had had a major share in the conferences at Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods, designed to plan for international cooperation and monetary policy. In any event, the strain was too much for the president, whose health, impaired for 24 years, finally broke. While resting at his favorite resort at Warm Springs, Ga., he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died. He was buried at Hyde Park.Resort development in the 20th century has mostly followed the lines of the sea. Great lines of resort hotels are found on both Florida coasts; in the San Juan area of Puerto Rico; on Jamaica's north shore, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Nassau, and Bermuda; at Acapulco in Mexico; in Portugal's Algarve; and on the Costa Brava and Costa del Sol of Spain, the French and Italian Rivieras, the Greek islands, and the Black Sea coast of Rumania and Bulgaria. Hawaii has enjoyed an enormous resort development since statehood. Waikiki's "hotel row" now rivals that of Miami Beach, and resort hotel-building has jumped to the neighboring islands of Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai, and to the windward side of Oahu.
But despite its frequent derision as an unworthy form of wit, punning is widespread, not only in English and other European languages, but in Africa, where it is very popular. James Boswell, in his Life of Samuel Johnson, conceded that "A good pun may be admitted among the excellencies of lively conversation." PUNA ISLAND, poo-na', island, Ecuador, in the Gulf of Guayaquil, opposite the mouth of the Guayas River. About 30 miles long and 10 miles wide, it is a favorite resort of sportsmen because of the excellent fishing and hunting.
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