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...Colombia prepared to inaugurate a new President last week, political tension combined with winter weather to make the capital city of Bogota cold and clammy. The state of siege under which the Conservatives had elected their presidential candidate, Laureano Gómez, was still very much in force...
Whisky & Calm. Colombia's Liberals, still claiming that Gómez' election was illegal, talked and gestured but did nothing. Ex-President Alfonso López and ex-Candidate Darío Echandia merely left Bogota for the inauguration weekend. Liberal newspapers ignored all news of the inauguration, of President Pérez and President-elect...
...Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...
...clear summer afternoon of June 27, the American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work...
...confetti-speckled, 9,644-ton liner Excalibur, carrying 114 vacationers and 130 crewmen, steamed down New York Harbor, bound for a leisurely cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia got its bow bashed in, and fire broke...