Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book called The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge University; $5), U.S. Cryptologists William and Elizebeth Friedman gave evidence that should discredit these investigators once and for all. The Friedmans' credentials are impressive: William led the team that broke the Japanese "purple" code a few months before Pearl Harbor (TIME...
Thirty-nine years before the gleam of lanterns from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church warned Paul Revere of approaching redcoats, a short, stocky Anglican divine, clad in near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...
Apart from his rating in television, Murrow is a VIP's VIP. After dinner at the White House on Dec. 7. 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt confided to him just what losses the Japanese had inflicted at Pearl Harbor that morning. When his broadside against McCarthy provoked the Senator to counterattack, President Eisenhower pointedly described Murrow as his friend. Carl Sandburg calls him a poet. He is a longtime friend-at-the-bar (Scotch, a little water, no ice) of Sir Winston Churchill. Interviewer Murrow is often more celebrated than the celebrities on Person to Person, sometimes must work...
Once the reception was over, Newport, with good New England grace, allowed the Eisenhowers the privacy they had come for. On Coasters Harbor Island they settled down in the naval base's commanding officer's refurbished Quarters A, a 67-year-old, 2½-story, white brick colonial-style house whose second-floor windows overlook Narragansett Bay. The President established a routine divided between play and work in his temporary office in the base communications building 100 ft. from Quarters A. Across the bay at the venerable (67 years old) Newport Country Club he played golf, doffed...
Mutiny. About 300 navy men, defectors to the Castro cause, mutinied at dawn and quickly seized control of the Cienfuegos naval station, built on a peninsula in the town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes...