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...Puerto Rican U.S. Army sergeant, watching another flag-raising ceremony at San Juan's old El Morro fortress, echoed the governor's sentiment in other words: "The United States," he said, "would never permit the flag of a lousy colony to fly beside its own. This means Puerto Rico has arrived...
...Furthermore, the plane is so complicated that even Boeing has doubts about mass production. As Boeing's President William Allen put it: "Comparing a World War II bomber and the B-52 is like comparing a kiddie-car and a Cadillac. Designing the Flying Fortress took 153,000 engineering hours, while designing the B-52 took...
Wages of Sin. With another of the defendants, Enbom even worked out a Trojan-horse plan for Communist seizure of Sweden's Boden fortress, a vast underground installation astride the invasion route from Finland. If war seemed imminent, loyal Communists were to be introduced into the fortifications in sealed railroad cars marked "urgent goods." Enbom reckoned that 200 men would be enough to seize the fortress by surprise...
...grubby, working-class suburb of Spandau in the British sector of Berlin stands a huge, rust red castle surrounded by 15 acres of grounds and a stout brick heptagonal wall. This is Spandau Fortress...
...Picked officers took downtown Havana's Cabana fortress. Others seized naval and air centers. From these bases they took control of police stations, communication centers, the labor palace. The rest of the island-there were only two regiments outside Havana-fell soon afterward. The young officers crowded round Batista at his table in Columbia and crowed: "Fulge, we're in!" Prío took refuge at the Mexican embassy. "We are the law," proclaimed Batista, sending tanks and armored cars through the streets of Havana...