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...horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success, became a key first step in the Dillingham family's development of the islands...
...Boston College seismograph station in Weston described the tremor as "a slight earthquake lasting from five to ten seconds." The center of the disturbance was in Boston Harbor, and it was felt as far as about fifteen miles inland in Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
Goulart managed to wangle an invitation for Tito to visit the booming inland city of Belo Horizonte. But that, too, was canceled in disgust by the governor of Minas Gerais state when he heard that Yugoslav security men insisted on the arrest of every Serbian and Croatian refugee in town. In desperation, Goulart wound up driving Tito 130 sweltering miles to the raw and sprawling town of Goiania, a must on nobody's list-only to be greeted by a row of grim, silent priests, each holding a crucifix wrapped in black crape...
...started laying their plans last May. For a boat, they decided to expropriate an 85-ft. government lighthouse tender, the H-11, and quickly enlisted the aid of the captain. On the appointed night, while he sailed to the rendezvous, the escapees gathered in the southern swamps four miles inland near the Bay of Pigs, loaded food, water and clothing aboard two flatboats, then pushed off for the sea. Women and children rode on the boats; the men waded ahead, hacking a path through the man grove and bamboo thickets. It took five hours to get through the swamp. Both...
...equipment and training methods are often so far behind the times that, in effect, the schools teach students to be unemployable. Last year a report by the Taconic Foundation concluded that the usefulness of New York City's vocational schools is "extremely questionable." Frank Cassell, personnel director of Inland Steel Co., says that "vocational education in Illinois bears about the same relationship to the real needs of industry as the shovel and the pickax do to the equipment demands of road building...