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Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. Was the flaming death of the cruise ship Morro Castle a horrendous case of arson? Reporter Gallagher files a fascinating, if circumstantial, brief against the ship's chief radio operator...
...named Gregorio Fuentes. Then Hemingway shucks off his shoes and socks, chins himself on the edge of the Pilar's flying bridge, throws one leg up, and, favoring his sore back, slowly raises himself to the roof to take the set of controls. The Pilar glides trimly past Morro Castle. Hemingway delightedly sniffs the sea-grape-scented air and gestures to the whole ocean. "It's the last free place there...
...Morro Bay, Calif...
...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...
...dazzling day last week, the 40-year-old gunboat Cuba steamed out of Havana harbor, coasting close under the grey, weathered walls of Morro Castle, and set course northeast through the blue Atlantic. At her foremast flew a pennant the Cuban breezes had not played with for seven years: the blue, white, red, yellow and green personal banner of General Fulgencio Batista. Aboard the Cuba was the general himself. He was headed for an Easter weekend holiday with his family on palm-lined Varadero Beach...