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...indicator efficiently, a navigator needs occasional glimpses of the ground or, over the sea, a celestial sight, for checking wind drift. But the gadget is sometimes surprisingly accurate by itself. In one test, a Bendix pilot took off at Boca Raton in weather that had grounded all air traffic and, flying solely by the indicator, without the use of radio and with only one brief glimpse of the ground, hit within six miles of his goal at Salina, Kans...
...ARMY SERGEANT'S NAME WITHHELD] Boca Raton Field...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...
Painter Quinquela decorated the classrooms with high-keyed murals of La Boca's daily life. Quinquela Martín abhors political propaganda in art, but he painted La Boca's stevedores, not like bedraggled proletarians, but as big-muscled, heroic men. Said he: "These boys are of poor families. Their fathers are doing hard, menial jobs. By making them into such men, these children will, at least for the moment, forget their poverty and be proud of their fathers...
...declined these offers "not because I would not have been honored and proud. . . . But I feel that such murals should be done by the men of the country itself, expressing scenes and events of the country as only its natives can best know and interpret them." Today, La Boca's moppets are even prouder of Painter Quinquela than of their crack football team, "The Boca Juniors...