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...control of the ship and locked the captain and the rest of the crew in the brig. When the four asked for asylum, the Coast Guard consulted the State Department, then advised the Cuban ship to "approach no closer than the three-mile limit." It dispatched two ships-the cutter Point Brown and a seagoing tug-to investigate...
...ships found the Cuban ship dead in the water about ten miles offshore, with its anchor dragging and the four crewmen on deck. When they sighted the U.S. ships, three of the men immediately jumped into a lifeboat and began rowing toward the cutter. Suddenly, a dozen men burst onto the deck of the 26 de Julio. With the ship's anchor still dragging, they got up power and headed the ship toward the lifeboat. They missed on the first pass, but swung around again and came close enough to dump two of the lifeboat's occupants into...
Late Orders. The U.S. cutter's skipper, Chief Boatswain's Mate P. W. Caviness, radioed Coast Guard headquarters for permission to intervene, was soon told to prevent the Cuban vessel from overrunning the lifeboat. The orders were too late. Before the cutter could move into position, the Julio made its third pass, and Caviness heard a shot fired from its deck. By the time the lifeboat came into sight again, both it and the sea around it were empty...
...some granted by tradition, some arrogated by the man in office. A President is at once head of state and leader of his party, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and administrator of a vast bureaucracy, leading legislator and top diplomat, educator and economist, symbol and sage, ribbon cutter and fence mender. Because of his role in shaping legislation affecting the cities, in recent years he has also become "the Chief Executive of Metropolis," as Williams Political Scientist James Mac-Gregor Burns puts...
...size, sumptuosity, style and snob appeal, this resplendent volume wins any 1967 publisher's award for conspicuous taste. Suggested prize: a gold-trimmed watch-fob-cigar-cutter holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English...