Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign is headed by James A. Rousmaniere '40, who retired last June as Director of the Harvard College Fund. As an undergraduate, Rousmaniere crewed on the championship boat that included the late President Kennedy...
...TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. The port's main feature is a fenced-off compound sprawling across some four acres along the narrow Camarioca River. At the dock, an "immigration official" introduced himself ("just call me Roberto") and motioned toward 300 Cubans milling around across the river. "When a boat arrives for them," he said, "we will notify them and admit them here for processing." The people waited late into the night, visible only by the glow of their cigarettes...
...buildings and new dock facilities. For the refugees inside, there was free lodging and three meals a day, the kind of meals Cubans only dream about-chicken, lobster, steak. "I'm astonished," said one exile, who was returning for his brother. "They gave me free gasoline for my boat and even fixed my water pump free...
...refugees were treated before they got to Camarioca, the gusanos' (worms') paradise, as Castroites contemptuously call it. Refugee Manuel Candelaria, his wife and parents lost their home in Havana, their store and an apartment building they owned. "Somebody came to the house last week and said a boat was coming for us," said Manuel's wife Zoraida. "They inventoried everything. Then a few nights later at 2 a.m., they came and said our boat had come and we must go. We had to leave everything." Others were too nervous to talk. "The G-2 is everywhere," whispered...
...relatives off the island. Such figures bring groans from Miami civic officials, who already have their hands full trying to assimilate 100,000 of the 300,000 exiles living in the U.S. But there is no choice. As one housewife confided in Camarioca: "I'm afraid of the boat ride, but I'll leave any way I can. I'm desperate. I'll go if I have to walk...